Font's in pasted scripts

tkuypers at pandora.be tkuypers at pandora.be
Sun Jun 22 03:46:00 EDT 2003


It is very frustrating, but a nice workaround is "paste as comment" and then
remove the comments...

Ton Kuypers


> From: Martin Baxter <martin at harbourtown.co.uk>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 08:51:10 +0100
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Font's in pasted scripts
> 
> Yes, Edwin, you are not alone...
> 
> I too have been seeing some really ugly results from pasting into scripts,
> and haven't found a simple way to fix it.
> The script looks awful because the pretty-printing (aka indentation) loses
> contact with reality, (because of the character widths of the different
> typeface maybe? I don't know the reason for sure) and pressing tab doesn't
> correct it, nor does any attempt to space it by hand.
> 
> I agree this is rather irritating. There is a need for some sort of "make
> it better" button I think ;-)
> 
> I've been doing battle with a couple of other irritating issues and so have
> just let this go by with a sigh. If I find a simpler fix than the one you
> already use I'll let you know.
> 
> martin baxter
> 
>> From: "Edwin Gore wrote :
>> 
>> For me it formats it - in so much as setting indents, etc, but the font and
>> style doesn't change.
>> 
>> 
>>>> Hmmm...it doesn't seem to work under Windows - using
>>>> control-; colorizes, but formatting stays the same, while
>>> 
>>> pressing the TAB key seems to format the script (go to a
>>> line past the section you want to re-format and press TAB
> 
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