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From: beierl_c@apollo.HP.COM (Christopher Beierl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: DM Editor Bug/Feature
Message-ID: <516bd920.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 7 May 91 14:44:00 GMT
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In article <372@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com> rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dick Harrigill) writes:
>Is this a bug in the 10.2+ DM, or is it a feature:
>
>Control characters go away when cut/copied and pasted.
>...   
>Any thoughts anyone?  Is this a known bug or an
>undocumented feature or what?

I guess that you'd have to call it a "feature".  Basically, the
DM editor cannot manipulate control-characters, with some exceptions,
like newline, etc.  The reason is because it uses embedded escape
sequences in the text being editted, and these sequences overlap
the control-character values.

-Chris (not a DM expert)

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