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micro does not show ASCII control characters (0x00 to 0x1F)
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Description
micro does not show ASCII control characters (0x00 to 0x1F)
I've had a lot of "fun" finding a configuration file syntax error and it turned out that the file contained accidentally an ASCII control character (0x00 to 0x1F) which micro simply ignores to display.
Instead of ignoring those unprintable characters micro should show them like "^CHAR"
0x00 - ^@
0x01 - ^A
0x02 - ^B
...
0x1B - ^[
0x1C - ^\
0x1D - ^]
0x1E - ^^
0x1F - ^-
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the terminal rendering path for non-printable characters and check how bytes in the 0x00–0x1F range are currently handled. Done means these characters are visible using the stated caret notation rather than being ignored.
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- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- 45/100