Slack Snippets zero width space bug

Bryan Hoffman·October 5, 2015·0 comments

I wrote last week about how to detect and remove zero width space characters () from Sublime Text. Turns out the culprit is a bug in Slack.

We use Slack to maintain a code snippet library using their Snippet feature. It works great for a few reasons:

Maintains tab spacing and breaks
Syntax highlighted
Easily searched

slack-snippet — Awesome snippet there, Bry.

Bad news? Good news!

Unfortunately when copy/pasting from a previous snippet, the unwanted characters get injected. The good news is that Slack is aware of the issue and are working on a fix. Until they do, I’ll continue to simply delete these characters now that I’m able to detect them in Sublime Text.

Bryan Hoffman

Bryan is one of two original founders of Cinch. He's passionate about many things: Family and friends; Building 3D printers; And of course web design and WordPress. He lives in Park City, Utah and gets outside as often as possible.