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Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
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Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Great. Now, can you say who ever said that it was voodoo ?
I only see someone who said that it was safe to type it in a software, but I can be wrong.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Add Messages.app to that list, I discovered as I stupidly tried to explain how to repro it to someone..
The fun thing about having it in messages.app, is it is actually a bug on the RECEIVING end of messages.app. And I can't seem to delete the message before the app crashes again. I'm so happy I have nice friends.
Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.
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#105I think it only affects 10.8. I have tried the suggested methods of this thread in Chrome, TextEdit, iTunes, terminal and Safari but nothing happened in 10.6.8.
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#106Hilarious. I pranked my friend with this, and now he's pissed. Oh well, it was certainly worth it.
Interesting, though, what exactly causes this bug. It seems as if the built-in spellcheck seems to misinterpret the string "file:///" as some sort of alien construct, or perhaps false typed directories trigger some sort of lockdown. Either way, it's very puzzling how this sort of thing made it past the OS X developers, especially with Apple's level and standard of ultra-high quality control.
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#107If you have Xcode you can reproduce the crash in a scratch Xcode project. Drop an NSSearchField into a window, run the app, enter you-know-what, and boom. (I used NSSearchField since that's what I found most easily crashes Finder, VoodooPad, and System Preferences. Maybe NSTextField works as well.)
The assert that fails is this:
assertion on /SourceCache/DataDetectorsCore/DataDetectorsCore-269.1/Sources/PushDown/DDResultExtraction.c:1576 "CFStringHasPrefix(urlVal, CFSTR("file://"))" failed :wrong extraction: File://
There's an extra slash at the end, but I left it out because it crashes Safari.
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#108It's definitely a spell check bug, I've got that feature turned off (always hated it) and none of this is doing anything for me.
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#109Binary patch, for entertainment purposes only, do not actually use: http://twitter.com/landonfuller/status/297592929923502080
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#110Tried it out by sending an email to myself (from webmail) and opening the mail in Mail.app. Mail.app doesn't crash, but if you hit reply to the message and put the cursor on the "File:///" part, it does crash.
Reproduced on Sparrow with success. Whenever you touch the line with File://(/) it will crash.
In one instance the Sparrow crash caused the entire mail library to be corrupt and I have to download all my mails again.