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The capital F (or indeed, any case version except all-lowercase, such as "fILE") is critical.
Tried that too. It does crash TextEdit, but not Chrome. OK, it also crashes Safari when capitalized.
Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
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#32I wish they'd just fix the bug where typing "~" crashes Terminal.app (depending on your keyboard language) :(
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#33Hilariously, this bug seems to also crash the Mac error reporter, maybe because it has the evil string in it. I did manage to copy and paste a crash dump before the crash reporter crashed: http://pastebin.com/UkhERvaA The underlying reported error is * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'condition "wrong extraction: File:///"' Interesting that it's an asynchronous cr…
It's really quite bad that a bug inside the data detectors can bring down a whole app.
Edit: some interesting links:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4519 ("This feature is called “data detectors.”")
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Found...
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I switched to iTerm a long time ago and never looked back. I recommend it.
iTerm 2 is brilliant, I can't imagine using the default Terminal for anything, ever.
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#37Not for me http://cl.ly/image/2i0S3r2b3q0d
Bug report says 10.8.2. I don't see this problem on 10.7.5 as the addendum mentions no problem in Lion.
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#38This also happens in the address bar of Chrome. Great fun.
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#39Tried to tweet about this - Twitter client for OSX crashed instantly. Strange that it's not been discovered before!
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#40I wish they'd just fix the bug where typing "~" crashes Terminal.app (depending on your keyboard language) :(
Can you give us the steps to reproduce? I googled around but couldn't find the bug. I also tried a few different languages and I can't get Terminal.app to crash.
Edit: Here's the same bug in VLC: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7268