[PyKDE] eric3: Crash on copypaste

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Friday 09 June 2006 22:31, PFC wrote:
> 	When I paste text containing accented chars encoded in ISO-8859-1 in an
> eric text editor handling an utf-8 file, eric crashes.
> 	It displays this in the console :
>
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev):
> 0x000000000185b6b0 ***
> Abandon
>
> 	Instead of crashing, I wish it would prompt me, for instance, "The text
> to be pasted contains invalid characters in the current document encoding.
> Select an encoding to convert the pasted data".

Copy and Paste is done entirely by QScintilla, the editor widget used by 
eric3. This has a problem handling invalid characters. Please post a bug 
report to the Scintilla maintainers.

>
> 	Also, in my Scite config, I have selected matched braces to be displayed
> in bold with a colored background.
> 	Eric only allows selection of another foreground color, but it's not very
> easy to spot the highlighted matched brace when it's lost in a large
> number of other braces... I wish I could specify a background color in the
> style preferences...

You can select the background color for matched and unmatched braces. Please 
upgrade to a newer version of eric3.

>
> 	Version info :
>
> eric 3.8.1
> Python 2.4.2 (#1, Mar 30 2006, 14:34:35)
> [GCC 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)] on linux2
>
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Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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