[Eric] eric4 inserts control characters on Ctrl+S when file was already saved

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Jürgen Urner wrote:
> Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> not sure wether this is an eric4 or QScintilla bug, but as the shortcut
> >> probably is assigned to eric4 I'm filing it here first.
> >>
> >> eric4 inserts a <DC3> (gray background, not sure what the meaning is)
> >> control character when pressing the Save-Shortcut in a document that has
> >> already been saved. It inserts a new character each time the shortcut is
> >> pressed.
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >
> > When a file is saved, the save action is disabled. That means, that it is
> > not handling the Ctrl+S anymore, which causes this keystroke to read
> > QScintilla. QScintilla inserts this into the text and shows it as the
> > gray <DC3> symbol (that is ASCII 19 or Ctrl+S). Currently, I have no idea
> > on how to prevent this. Any hint is appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Detlev
>
> Why do you disable the save action in the first place? 

It is disabled, if the editor in question hasn't been modified.

> Saving every now and 
> then is doing no harm. Or is disabling the save action meant to stop the
> user
> from doing something potentially evil?
>
> Another thought. If a (any) shortcut is no longer eaten up by an action
> and passed to scintilla one might get unexpected results every now and
> then. Why not install an event filter to eat up those shortcuts?

Should QScintilla ignore control characters, i.e. chars < 32?

Detlev
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