[TxMt] Re: Curly quotes, single and double.

Mark Eli Kalderon eli at markelikalderon.com
Mon Jul 14 21:11:29 UTC 2008


OK your keyboard layout must be different from mine, still, check the  
keyboard viewer, the characters are available via the OS...

On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Daniel Barber wrote:

> Thanks, but those characters are different than the curly quotes
> produced by BBEdit when using its custom keys. With the option key
> depressed while typing in TextMate I get the grave and acute accents
> and diaeresis–I can confirm this by copying the resulting characters
> into the search bar in Apple's character palette
> The characters I am hoping to be able to type in are these:
>
> Left single quotation mark - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2018/
> Right single quotation mark - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2019/
> Left double quotation marl - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/201c/
> Right double quotation mark - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/201d/
>
> Does anyone know how to type these in directly without having to use
> HTML entities?
>
> Cheers.
>
> d
>
> On 14-Jul-08, at 4:34 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
>
>> Checking the keyboard viewer reveals that option-[ and option-] is
>> what you are after. Best, Mark
>> On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Daniel Barber wrote:
>>
>>> New TextMate user coming from BBEdit. How do I enter single or  
>>> double
>>> curly quotes? In BBEdit it is option-' or shift+option-", but I  
>>> can't
>>> figure it out in TextMate. I typeset a lot of content while coding,
>>> and knowing how would be a huge timesaver.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> d
>>>
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