Show invisible characters (tab, space, return) in field

[Kaveh Bazargan]

Hi Hermann

There is a also a zero width character. :-) that is 200B. So using a
monospace font all chars line up.

And even more interesting, when I press the backspace key, it generally
treats the composite pair as one character, so jumps back over both with
one backspace!!

On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 16:28, Kaveh Bazargan <
kaveh at rivervalleytechnologies.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 16:00, hh via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> You could moreover add the following to the field's script.
>>
>> on rawkeyup k
>>   switch k
>>     case 65288 -- backspace
>>       put word 4 of the selectedChunk into cx
>>       if char cx of me is among the items of \
>>
>> (numToCodePoint(0x23CE),numToCodePoint(0x21E5),numToCodePoint(0x00B7))
>>       then delete char cx of me
>>       break
>>     case 65535 -- forward delete
>>       put word 2 of the selectedChunk into cx
>>       if char cx of me is among the items of
>> (numToCodePoint(0x200A),cr,tab)
>>       then delete char cx of me
>>       break
>>     default
>>       pass rawkeyup
>>   end switch
>> end rawkeyUp
>>
>> There is still more to do, e.g. when typing after a return symbol...
>> Hope you are (as I did) sharing your working edit code when done.
>>
>
> I have a long way to go before I have anything useful as I am still trying
> to grasp the excellent information. But of course I will share if I have
> anything to add to these.
>
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