[R-SIG-Mac] turn off text transforms

[Simon Urbanek]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:

> hi all,
> if I enter the following into R.app
> 
>> 1/8 x 248.70
> 
> I get
> Error: unexpected symbol in "1/8 x”
> 
> Because OS text entry is transforming 1/8 into ⅛.
> 
> Is there a way to turn that off selectively for R.app?
> 

Brian is right, but I noticed myself that there is something wonky going on with the editor on Lion - it is translating characters where it should not (e.g. \dots) - and I know only of the global configuration to disable it. I'll have a look if there is some message that could be send to the text view on Lion once I'm back (next week) because its highly annoying …

Cheers,
Simon