SC3 crashes with Command-Backtick (nonprinting) on spanish keyboard?

Questions
1

Hi list,

a colleague of mine can crash SCIDE on OS X by typing
Command+backtick (the latter as nonprinting character on a spanish
keyboard). Is this known?

thanks, Peter

2

FWIW: I tried on linux in a pretty recent build from the develop branch and ctrl+backtick didn’t crash SCIDE (but I’m not using a spanish keyboard, so perhaps that test made no sense at all…). I’ve had a quick look in the bug db but didn’t immediately find something related.

3

Dear Shiihs,

Oh sorry, perhaps I didn’t mention this happened on OS X.

Thank you for trying,
P

4

Hi Peter,

Actually you did mention OS X (and I did notice it), but since I don’t have OS X I thought I’d give it a try on linux - mostly because I was curious if it is some kind of general problem.

5

I’m using OSX Catalina, SC 3.11.2, though with an ANSI keyboard, and this does not crash SCIDE for me.

6

Thank you Boris,

which keyboard language layout do you have? ASCI only seems to specify
key layout as far as I can tell:

Does your backtick produce a backtick immediately or is it a
non-printing character, only added to a letter that you type after it?

Thanks again,
P

7

This thread reminds me:
I am consistently able to crash SC 3.11.2 by pressing Cmd + ¨ on Swedish keyboard layout. This is physically located right next to Enter which makes things exciting. I try not to think about it and I am mostly ok. I am on Mac OS X 10.13.6
I will make a bug report on GitHub.

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Hi t36s,

this might be it! The backtick on the spanish keyboard is at the same
position (next to Enter). Thanks for filing this as a bug report,
possibly mentioning that it is the physical key and not the actual
character.

best, P

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The backtick on my keyboard immediately creates a character.

I am unfamiliar with any keyboard layout than the 'merkin one, but if that key isn’t so often used, or can be moved without screwing up typing ergonomics too bad, karabiner is a decent enough key-remapper - https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ - might provide a short term solution for making things less interesting.