[Development] Assistant documentation can not be copied anymore?

Bernhard private at bernhard-lindner.de
Wed Dec 17 13:55:10 CET 2014


Thanks for the response and for taking care of this.
In case you create an issue in the bug tracker please give me the link.
 
-- 
Kind Regards
Bernhard Lindner


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> [mailto:development-bounces+private=bernhard-lindner.de at qt-
> project.org] Im Auftrag von Reinio Topi
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2014 12:59
> An: development at qt-project.org
> Betreff: Re: [Development] Assistant documentation can not be copied
> anymore?
> 
> 
> Hi Bernhard,
> 
> This change is in qdoc, the tool that generates the documentation. Zero-
> width-space characters are injected into the function signatures, allowing
> browsers to break up long signatures over multiple lines in a nice manner
-
> this was made to improve the looks of the new online documentation style,
> published under http://doc.qt.io.
> 
> The fact that it breaks copy-paste in some of the editors is unfortunate -
> thanks for reporting this, we'll look into it.
> 
> \topi
> ________________________________________
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> project.org <development-bounces+topi.reinio=theqtcompany.com at qt-
> project.org> on behalf of Bernhard <private at bernhard-lindner.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:40 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Assistant documentation can not be copied
> anymore?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> After searching for functions and features in Qt Assistant  I used to copy
code
> snippets (like function names, signatures etc.) from the Assistant pages.
> Starting with Qt5.4 that got pretty annoying.
> 
> Still copied code looks perfectly fine but VS2013 Intellisense and
compiler
> complain about strange errors. It seems there are invisible characters
hidden
> in the assistant pages that break the code. VS editor doesn't show these
> characters at all which is extremely annoying and hard to figure out.
> 
> E.g. I tried to copy the prototype of the QWidget::showEvent into the VS
> editor. It contains an invisible but harmful character that can't be
compiled
> (seems the character is inserted directly in front if the "showEvent"
function
> name).
> 
> Has something changed in the formatting Assistant's pages from Qt 5.3.2 to
> Qt 5.4? Can someone confirm/explain this?
> 
> --
> Kind Regards
> Bernhard Lindner
> 
> 
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