[Cuis-dev] Copy and paste and arrow characters

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

Great, thanks!
I was wondering if this conversion on paste was really necessary, because I
thought the browser and workspace would do it automatically with the syntax
highlighter, but maybe I’m wrong. Anyway, this fixes it for me, I can just
set the preference to false, thanks!


On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 19:52 Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Luciano,
>
> We did this essentially to enable readers of The Cuis Book to copy code
> from the book and paste into Smalltalk, with nice looking ST-80 glyphs, and
> without needing to know about these details.
>
> I have just added a #replaceUnicodeArrowsWithSmalltalkArrows preferences
> that defaults to true. Please turn it off. I believe now the behavior will
> be ok for you (and any experienced Smalltalker). If not, please tell!
>
> Cheers,
> On 2026-06-10 5:28 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> When I copy and paste text with the arrow characters Cuis does some
> replacements, like ↑  is replaced with ^. But in many cases this is
> wrong, for example I have arrows in string literals, and in comments. Do we
> really need to do this replacement automatically? Won’t everything work
> fine without doing it?
>
> Thanks,
> Luciano
>
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