UPDATE: I submitted a bug request.
Thanks!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Experience Program Manager (Blog,
Twitter,
Wiki)
It seems to only happen when someone pastes colorized code from an external tool.
I posted a link to the thread that does it everytime but the link seems to have disappeared.
Here is the link again. All of my posts have no colorizations. I suspect you can also create a post and paste some POwerSHell code into the code box and see if it still does that. I have two posts there that both failed.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/thread/d22dba05-27e0-4256-8d7c-e176e8a8b3c3#b712d36b-c8d5-4f99-b11a-4bfc78f71b33
Here is a new test post here:
<#
import Autocorrect List into Word 2010.ps1
Defaults to current PowerShell folder and default filename.
You can create a file using this:
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries|
select name,value,RichText|
export-csv autocorrect.csv -notype
#>
[CmdLetBinding()]
Param(
$file='autocorrect.csv',
$path=$pwd
)
$filepath="$path\$file"
$filepath
if(-not (Test-Path $filepath) ){
Write-Host 'File not found' -ForegroundColor red
return
}
# file contains twio columns - name and value both are stings.
$csv = Import-Csv -Path $filepath
Write-Host 'Auto.csv File found. Processing...' -ForegroundColor green
$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application
Foreach($entry in $word.AutoCorrect.entries){
Try{
if($entry.RichText){
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries.AddRichText($entry.Name, $entry.Value)
}else{
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries.Add($entry.Name, $entry.Value)
}
}
Catch{
Write-Error ('Failed to add:' + $entry.Name)
}
}
Write-Host 'Autocorrect list entries added' -ForegroundColor green
$word.Quit()
$word = $null
[gc]::collect()
[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
Hah - I see it:
This should work:
[CmdLetBinding()]
Param(
$file='autocorrect.csv',
$path=$pwd
)
$filepath="$path\$file"
$filepath
if(-not (Test-Path $filepath) ){
Write-Host 'File not found' -ForegroundColor red
return
}
# file contains twio columns - name and value both are stings.
$csv = Import-Csv -Path $filepath
Write-Host 'Auto.csv File found. Processing...' -ForegroundColor green
$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application
Foreach($entry in $word.AutoCorrect.entries){
Try{
if($entry.RichText){
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries.AddRichText($entry.Name, $entry.Value)
}else{
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries.Add($entry.Name, $entry.Value)
}
}
Catch{
Write-Error ('Failed to add:' + $entry.Name)
}
}
Write-Host 'Autocorrect list entries added' -ForegroundColor green
$word.Quit()
$word = $null
[gc]::collect()
[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
The problem is
<#
#>
They are not parsed in the colorizer and once inserted at5 the beginning of script the whole block fails to colorize.
Proof:
#
#
#
<#
import Autocorrect List into Word 2010.ps1
Defaults to current PowerShell folder and default filename.
You can create a file using this:
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries|
select name,value,RichText|
export-csv autocorrect.csv -notype
#>
[CmdLetBinding()]
Param(
$file='autocorrect.csv',
$path=$pwd
)
$filepath="$path\$file"
$filepath
if(-not (Test-Path $filepath) ){
Write-Host 'File not found' -ForegroundColor red
return
}
# file contains twio columns - name and value both are stings.
$csv = Import-Csv -Path $filepath
Write-Host 'Auto.csv File found. Processing...' -ForegroundColor green
$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application
Foreach($entry in $word.AutoCorrect.entries){
Try{
if($entry.RichText){
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries.AddRichText($entry.Name, $entry.Value)
}else{
$word.AutoCorrect.Entries.Add($entry.Name, $entry.Value)
}
}
Catch{
Write-Error ('Failed to add:' + $entry.Name)
}
}
Write-Host 'Autocorrect list entries added' -ForegroundColor green
$word.Quit()
$word = $null
[gc]::collect()
[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
By adding a couple of # before the <# we get it past the colorizer bugs.
This is part of all of the edit issues with posisiton and insertion including the bold conten deleteion issues. Thisis due to bad pointer arithmatic. Remember that mesages in Windows are not guaranteed to be delivered in the same order that
they were sent. If we send a message that adjust a number another message can undo that adjustment. In a browser we have no way to control this. That is also why I and others keep getting jscript errors with "pointer out of bounds" messages
which I have posted about here many times.
So start any code block with <# and it will likely fail to colorize correctly.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
