Identify and replace non-breaking spaces

[maxlouisr]

Hello everyone, it seems a recent mac os might have broken something in the way Haskell deals with non-breaking spaces (such as when you hold alt + space bar). How would go about telling Pulsar to look for these in a document and replace them all ? And also how would you reconfigure that keyboard shortcut to just do a normal space ? Thanks a lot

[Daeraxa]

This sounds rather odd... I don't think that shortcut is a Pulsar thing, is this not something done via macOS?

As for replacing them you should just be able to past an example of the "bad" space in the Find in current buffer box and replace them as any other character.

[maxlouisr]

It seems like it is indeed defined in macOs. I have tried everything i could find online to disable it but nothing worked. Replacing does the trick very well in the meanwhile !

[savetheclocktower]

In your init.js you can define a command for this.

atom.commands.add('atom-text-editor', {
  'custom:insert-space': (event) => {
    let editor = atom.workspace.getActiveTextEditor();
    editor.insertText(' ');
  }
});

Then you can map alt-space to this command in your keymap.cson:

'atom-text-editor':
  'alt-space': 'custom:insert-space'

Haven't tested this, so I might've made a silly mistake. Let me know if it doesn't work.

[maxlouisr]

Thanks a lot ! I'm not sure where these files are however- I could see several init.js in the pulsar application folder (in src, lib, npm-init...) Is it any one of these ? And i haven't yet found anything named keymap.cson. Thanks for your help

[savetheclocktower]

There are menu entries — one named Init File… and one named Keymap… — that will open these files for editing. Since you're on macOS, they're in the Pulsar application menu at the top of your screen.

They're stored in your home folder (~/.pulsar).

[maxlouisr]

Thanks so much, that worked ! Really cool

[PrincipaldelReydeReyes]

'atom-text-editor':
'alt-space': 'custom:insert-space'