I would appreciate if someone can explain to me why I am feeling a urge to visit the office tomorrow only to see stuff crashing on my OSX workstation.
Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
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Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Enlighten us. I have read the feature list over the years and don't see anything that really stands out enough.
You know, it's funny. I said the exact same thing you did, then a friend convinced me to try iTerm2 about a year ago. I still couldn't put my finger on what's better about it, exactly, but I've never considered going back after the first day. It just feels right. It's probably easier to try than it is to find out why to try it...
I say the same thing about why I loathe Chrome and adore Safari. I can't really say why, Safari just feels right.
Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#63Hilariously, 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…
From the openradar bug, it is obvious that the bug is inside the "Data Detectors" thing. Looks like it triggers on anything starting with file:// (+/) case-insensitive, but then something later in the data extraction makes the incorrect assumption that the string should start with file:// (+/) lowercase, and throws an assert. It's really quite bad that a bug inside the data detectors can bring down a whole app. Edit:…
The data detectors, at least in my TextEdit were turned off (never touched it before) so typing the aforementioned string doesn't cause any issues.
However in my stupidity of attempting to tell you guys that I could type the aforementioned string, I caused Safari to hang. No crash, but it was complete and utterly useless.
Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#64Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.
Typing it into a text box in Safari causes Safari to hang completely. Had to force quite it.
Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#65LINUX
Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#66Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.
That's because SublimeText doesn't use NSTextFields, and therefore, doesn't use Data Detectors. It's not voodoo.
Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#67Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.
That's because SublimeText doesn't use NSTextFields, and therefore, doesn't use Data Detectors. It's not voodoo.
Seriously, people, learn how to read a backtrace. This is hacker news, not social-media-manager-who-claims-they-are-a-geek news.
Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#68Can't reproduce it in Lion.
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Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the openradar bug, it is obvious that the bug is inside the "Data Detectors" thing. Looks like it triggers on anything starting with file:// (+/) case-insensitive, but then something later in the data extraction makes the incorrect assumption that the string should start with file:// (+/) lowercase, and throws an assert. It's really quite bad that a bug inside the data detectors can bring down a whole app. Edit:…
The data detectors, at least in my TextEdit were turned off (never touched it before) so typing the aforementioned string doesn't cause any issues. However in my stupidity of attempting to tell you guys that I could type the aforementioned string, I caused Safari to hang. No crash, but it was complete and utterly useless.
Nevermind ... re-ran TextEdit and tried again, immediately crashes. data detectors are still turned off.
Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
#70Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.
This bug is even crashing the crash reporter app as well. It vanishes shortly after appearing when I reproduce the bug in TextEdit.