[TxMt] Changing quote escape character

Michael Sheets mummer at whitefalls.org
Sat Sep 8 20:47:11 UTC 2007


On Sep 8, 2007, at 5:33 AM, DZ-Jay wrote:

> Hello:
> 	I work developing software using Windows at the office, but at  
> home I get to do my own stuff in a Mac -- so I use TextMate for  
> that.  However, I've noticed that most (all?) language syntaxes in  
> the bundles menu use the 'C' escape character, even if the language  
> really doesn't support that escape sequence.  Specifically, I was  
> interested in changing the Pascal/Delphi syntax to use doubled  
> single-quotes ('') as an escaped quoted-string quote instead of  
> \' (which is taken as literal in Pascal).

Use to be true that a lot of languages copied the C style escapes  
(because it's included as an example), but I think we've since fixed  
most all of those. Pascal was fixed on 8/22, so svn up that bundle  
and you'll be good. :)



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