working on the dlang.org website

Brian Schott briancschott at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 15:01:02 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 21:50:15 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> Someone in IRC,  Hackerpilot I believe, related how they copied 
> and pasted some code from dlang.org into their editor and 
> random things weren't getting syntax highlighted.  He only 
> noticed what was causing it when he was moving the cursor 
> around and his cursor wouldn't move the same number of arrow 
> key presses he made.
>
> Invisible characters breaking my code is pretty much my 
> greatest nightmare as a programmer.

To clarify: I was updating the syntax highlighting file for 
Textadept so that it would include the latest list of __traits 
arguments and so on. I copied and pasted the listing off the site 
into the lexer file and random things failed to highlight.


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