Ward Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: [...] >When I copy the text from the formatted mail message to the clipboard, >it appears that the two spaces become an ASCII 202 and 32. When I >paste the spaces into BBEdit, I get the untranslated ASCII in my text >window. On the other hand, when I paste into MacASCII Display, I get >two regular spaces. Although MacASCII Display's behavior may be >erroneous, it's just what I'd like BBEdit to do when I'm transferring >source code from email into a BBEdit window. > >I'd like to avoid this problem in the future. I've checked BBEdit's >preferences, and I can't find a "translate 'rich' text to source code >text" option. Is this possible?
Non-breaking spaces aren't 'rich text' in the usual sense of that term :-), i.e. they carry no style information; they're just ordinary extended characters and thus BBEdit is obliged to preserve them when presented with same. Text -> Convert to ASCII is an easy way to normalize non-breaking spaces and other extended characters, e.g. curly quotes or em- and en-dashes. (I've added a key mapping for this command via the Menus prefs panel since I use it all the time. :-) Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com> P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
