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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the testing.  I wonder if there are any other single line
text edit controls where this same behavior can be an issue.  If you
happen to find any, please let me know and I will fix them.

On 4/2/2016 9:41 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Tested with a few hellish combinations of characters and everything I could
> think of managed not to break it. Also, three thumbs up from me about not
> liking programs silently changing what you've typed.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 08:37:51AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> I just committed the fix for this
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1529358 bug.  It was more involved
>> that I thought it would be (isn't it always?) so I would appreciate some
>> help testing this to make sure I didn't break anything particularly on
>> OSX.  Mainly I need to make sure that I didn't accidentally limit any
>> valid field characters or break the component value (renaming) field
>> code.  As of now, you cannot use \r, \n, or \t in any field and
>> reference designators cannot contain spaces.  I also changed the leading
>> and trailing white space behavior.  In the past, leading and trailing
>> white spaces would silently be removed.  I changed that so you now get a
>> warning so you can fix it.  I personally don't like programs silently
>> changing information I typed.  I would rather be warned that what I
>> typed is invalid.  I can change this back if users find it too
>> objectionable.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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