Editor bug?

[Bubbaleone]

I'll use this thread; http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2262230, for an example of what I'm describing (notice the words Windows and Microsoft in the boot.ini sample). During composition, all the word and letter spacings, typed or pasted into the editor look fine. But when I preview or post my reply, occasionally I get these wierd blank spaces in the middle of certain words and/or alphanumeric combinations.

If I copy/paste from Notepad (which is how I normally compose my posts) I never use word wrap; I let the editor do the wrapping, and I always disable smilies before typing/pasting anything in the editor. Even completely deleting the mis-spaced word in the editor, and manually re-typing it, doesn't fix it. As I said; it seems to be a random event. Could this be a bug in the editor itself?

 

[olds]

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS 
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 2"/noexecute=optin /fastdetect

I seem to recall this being a work around.
Shouldn't have to do it though.

 

[Bubbaleone]

Thanks for the tip oldsmoboat. Maybe I'll just start using an image instead, when posting a file example or command, where the syntax is critical.


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[ViRGE]

That's not a bug. Those spaces are inserted intentionally to keep people from posting one long string of text to try to break the forum tables. After so many characters the forum makes you take a break, basically.

If you need to use very long strings, use the code box.

 

[Bubbaleone]

Thanks ViRGE, I appreciate your insight.