[Cuis-dev] Fix for VectorCanvas>>#image:at:

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Luciano,

On 6/16/2023 2:37 PM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Juan,
> Your last changes seem to work great so far.
> However I found another little issue that maybe we can fix: copy and 
> pasting looses text attributes, so subscripts and superscripts get lost.

Right. I was thinking on code browsers (code is plain text by 
definition), but pasting Text makes sense in  Workspaces.

> I think we can fix this by just removing the two methods in the 
> ‘clipboard’ category in SmalltalkEditor. I’m not sure if there’s still 
> a need to replace underscores with arrows like you do in those 
> methods. I just removed those two methods and the underscore is still 
> converted to arrow on paste, and subscripts and superscripts now are 
> pasted correctly.

Those methods are there just in case you paste code with Unicode Arrows 
(not underscores!). We do that to have good looking and functional code 
in The Cuis Book. So I kept them, but keeping Text Attributes.

Fix is now at github.

Thanks!

>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 22:43 Luciano Notarfrancesco 
> <luchiano at gmail.com <mailto:luchiano at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     That’s fantastic, thank you! I just updated a fresh image and
>     seems to work well. I’ll continue using it and let you know if I
>     find any problems.
>     Thanks for taking the time to do this!
>     Luciano
>
>     On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 22:09 Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st
>     <mailto:juan at cuis.st>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Luciano,
>
>         On 6/15/2023 3:23 PM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>         Hi Juan,
>>
>>         On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 19:43 Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st
>>         <mailto:juan at cuis.st>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>             I guess the name is not clear. It just avoids Shout
>>             Attirbutes, but not Shout analizing the text as if it was
>>             source code and getting confused. That's why we need the
>>             double quotes and final $.
>>
>>
>>         Oh, I see. It seems to me that it would be more useful to tag
>>         printIt text as “not code” instead, and make Shout ignore it
>>         completely. It could also function as “separator” between
>>         fragments of code to be syntax highlighted, just like leaving
>>         two empty lines. And it would make the double quotes and
>>         final dot unnecessary.
>
>         I agree. Currently the parsers take String, not Text, so I'm
>         not sure if doing as you suggest is complicated or not.
>
>         As a start, I just commited a few updates that make Workspace
>         Shout parsing start fresh after any empty line (i.e. a
>         sequence of two LFs). Maybe this is enough. Maybe the double
>         quotes are no longer needed. We'll see.
>
>>
>>             > I’m still having troubles with := and _ not being shown
>>             as arrows, leaving empty
>>
>>             > lines between fragments of code doesn’t seem to help.
>>
>>             Does adding $. after the "offending code" help? Double
>>             quoting it?
>>
>>
>>         Adding $. doesn’t help, but commenting out big portions of
>>         text does (it’s hard to find the exact offending text and fix
>>         it). Ideally, it would be nice if syntax highlighting worked
>>         properly in workspaces without requiring the user to make
>>         sure that all the text in workspace compiles correctly. I’d
>>         turn off syntax highlighting in workspaces if that helped,
>>         but if I do that underscores are not converted to arrows anymore…
>
>         If I got right the stuff I just pushed, just an empty line
>         should be enough to get left arrows for assignment and Shout
>         attributes right. Please test.
>
>         BTW, You all folks telling these kinds of things out loud is
>         extremely important. I have a tendency to get used to, and
>         ignore these small annoyances. You all pointing at them makes
>         me try to fix them!
>
>         Thanks,--
>
>         Juan Vuletich
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>


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