[R-SIG-Mac] Pasting Code in Editor has Wrong Colors

Brandon Hurr brandon.hurr at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 17:35:07 CET 2016


Ok, small, but important, further update.

When you paste something as plain text in the editor, it does in fact
work, but my mistake was that I pasted as normal first and then tried
to paste as plain second. It was still using the colors of the
previous paste.

Sorry for the noise, it does work.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Brandon Hurr <brandon.hurr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> A follow up. On my system, "paste as plain text" does not fix the
> color or font size issue when pasting. Below is my system information.
>
>> devtools::session_info()
> Session info ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  setting  value
>  version  R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
>  system   x86_64, darwin13.4.0
>  ui       AQUA
>  language (EN)
>  collate  en_US.UTF-8
>  tz       America/Los_Angeles
>  date     2016-03-07
>
> Packages --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  package  * version     date       source
>  devtools   1.10.0.9000 2016-02-26 Github (hadley/devtools at b6a23be)
>  digest     0.6.9       2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
>  memoise    1.0.0       2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
>  withr      1.0.1       2016-02-04 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
>
>
> Brandons-iMac:~ brandonhurr$ sw_vers
> ProductName: Mac OS X
> ProductVersion: 10.11.3
> BuildVersion: 15D21
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Brandon Hurr <brandon.hurr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Simon,
>>
>> Thanks for the shortcut keys. I'll definitely use them.
>>
>> As for your question about where it's coming from, mostly Chrome via
>> ggplot2/manipulatr mailing lists, and stackoverflow. As you say it will
>> retain the fonts and sizes and everything. I had tried CMD + Shift + V as it
>> is in gmail and it didn't work.
>>
>> Coming from a naive standpoint, I'm unsure why pasting as plain text isn't
>> the default here. Is it inherited from OSX, and you have no choice?
>>
>> I've thought about it a few times and I can't imagine why having decorated
>> text is useful in R-GUI at all but particularly the editor window. It
>> overrides colors, fonts, font sizes, until you save and reopen. Then
>> everything is like if you had pasted as plain text.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brandon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 09:46 Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 4, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Brandon Hurr <brandon.hurr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > As mentioned in the exchange with Frederico, I've been using Solarized
>>> > Dark
>>> > colors for the console and editor to hopefully make long days of coding
>>> > easier on my eyes.
>>> >
>>> > The issue is when I paste code from a webpage or email it appears to
>>> > revert
>>> > to the original colors interspersed with the new background color. See
>>> > this
>>> > image for an example: http://i.imgur.com/4n32Hx9.png
>>> >
>>> > If I save the script and reload it, everything looks the way it should.
>>> > When the same code is pasted into R-GUI, everything is as it should be.
>>> >
>>>
>>> The paste option supports pasting attributes, so I wonder what is your
>>> source. If the source includes colors, the the source colors override your
>>> GUI setting - that is a standard Mac behavior (for better or worse). If you
>>> don't want that to happen, use "Paste as plain text" instead (<cmd><alt><V>)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Brandon
>>> >
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>>> >
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>>



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