Slick V3.3 manual Language Tab, Single quotes

Color Coding Setup Dialog

•Trailing backslash continues string across lines - When this option is selected, it indicates that searching for the terminating quote continues to the next line if the lines end with a backslash charac- ter.

•Search for end quote across multiple lines - When this option is selected, it indicates that the string does not have to be terminated on the same line as the start quote character.

•Delay color coding until end quote - When this option is selected, a string is not color-coded un- less an end quote is seen on the same line. This does not support multi-line strings.

•Single quotes

•Two consecutive quotes represent one - '''' (four consecutive single quote characters) for Pascal represents a string of length one which is a single quote character.

•Backslash single quote represents a single quote - '\'' represents a string of length one which is a single quote character.

•Single quoted strings are always 1 char long - When this option is selected, a single quote char- acter is followed by an additional character and then the terminating single quote character. There is never more than one character between the start and end single quote.

•Trailing backslashes continues string across lines - When this option is selected, it indicates that searching for the terminating quote continues to the next line if the lines end with a backslash charac- ter.

•Search for end quote across multiple lines - When this option is selected, it indicates that the string does not have to be terminated on the same line as the start quote character.

•Delay color coding until end quote - When this option is selected, a string is not color-coded un- less an end quote is seen on the same line. This does not support multi-line strings.

Language Tab

The Language tab is used to set more language-specific color coding options. To access these settings, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Col- or Coding setting and select the Language tab.

Figure 10.53. Color Coding Setup: Language Tab

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