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[Stewart Gordon]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
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> TextPad's syntax highlighting engine manages 2/3 of this without any 
> regexps (or anything to that effect).  That said, I've just found that 
> it can do a little bit of what remains: I can make it do `...` but not 
> r"..." at the expense of distinguishing string and character literals.
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For the record, what I'd done is

StringStart = "
StringEnd = "
StringAlt = '
StringEsc = \
CharStart = `
CharEnd = `
CharEsc =

however, I've just found a bigger problem: only string literals, not 
char literals, can span lines in TP.

Stewart.