Topic: Pasting lisp code brings up dialogue boxes

[hyposmurf]

Simple question with a simple answer I guess.Why when I paste lisp code into my command line it sometimes opens things like my help box,toolbar customisation box etc?If I just load the lisp via applaod this doesnt happen.I thought it might be due to there being an extra enter "" that would bring up the last command,but this isnt the case as it doesnt happen when i appload. Always something Ive wondered about but never bothered ask.

[MP]

It happens because free space (unbounded by a lisp statement) is akin to sending carriage returns to AutoCAD; typically there is trailing space or unbounded space in the clipboard contents.

Try preceeding the paste with a (progn and finishing it with a closing parenthesis), like so:

 (progn <paste>).

[hyposmurf]

Now I know.Cheers.

[Keith™]

I have seen a similar thing happen when comments are pasted along with code.