<div>Absolutely. </div>
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<div>That clears that up - will the fix add a specific command for doing this on pasted text please?</div>
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<div>Paul<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/19 Jonathan Kew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfkthame@googlemail.com">jfkthame@googlemail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Kew <<a href="mailto:jfkthame@googlemail.com">jfkthame@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>> I think you'll find that the "smart quotes" function only applies to text<br>
>>> *as it is typed*; it won't modify existing text, or fix up blocks of text<br>>>> that you're pasting into the document.<br>>><br>>> No it works with text created, for example, in jEdit with ", copied and<br>
>> pasted to TeXworks and then "passing the cursor over the text" with Smart<br>>> quotes enabled. (tested)<br>><br>> Oh! I'm surprised at that; in fact, I'm inclined to consider it a bug. But I<br>
> should think about it a bit more...<br><br></div>Yes, this was not intended behavior, it was an oversight in the<br>implementation. I consider it a bug that simply moving the cursor<br>forward through the text can result in the text getting changed; this<br>
is not appropriate behavior in an editor.<br><br>I've just committed a change (r.422) to fix this, so this "feature"<br>will disappear from future builds. "Smartening" existing quotes should<br>be an explicit action, not something that happens as a side effect of<br>
moving the cursor. :)<br><font color="#888888"><br>JK<br></font></blockquote></div><br>