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Bug 622295 - 'Hash' sign not working on Mac OS with UK keyboard
'Hash' sign not working on Mac OS with UK keyboard
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 617655
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.30.x
Other Mac OS
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-21 15:40 UTC by jswetzen
Modified: 2010-06-22 08:46 UTC
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Description jswetzen 2010-06-21 15:40:20 UTC 
Hi!

I'm reposting a bug report that was reported to the Ubuntu Mactel support bugtracker:

First can I say thank you for doing a MAC port, great effort. However, there is a REALLY SERIOUS error in that the 'hash' symbol - alt-3 on UK (British) keyboards does not work. I use gedit every day on my Linux machine and was delighted to discover a MAC port had been developed - yipee, I can do all my editing with the same great tool on all my computers :) However, imagine my surprise when trying the MAC port for the first time and attempting to write C/C++ code, only to find the # symbol is not available!! making (OS X) gedit useless for programming.

I did discover that it is possible to add a # symbol using the built-in TextEdit app, then copy and paste hash symbol into Gedit, but that is really not a reasonable solution.
Comment 1 jswetzen 2010-06-22 08:46:06 UTC 
Oops, there was already a bug filed for this... I just couldn't find it before.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 617655 ***