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When I turn line wrap (or, actually, word wrap) on, Paddy will break up lines that are too long, but not in the middle of words. Fine. But then I discover that expressions inside single quotes are not broken either, even not between words. I have a 190-character long line with single quotes that's not being wrapped after character 116, which is the last character I see on my screen. Instead, it is broken at 179, which is the last whitespace character on that line. The characters 117 - 179 remain invisible, outside my screen, and the only way I may see them is by turning word wrap off (I may access them, though). This... bugish behaviour repeats itself in several lines.

I tried copying the whole sequence into a new document that has also word wrap turned on, and the line wrap worked like it should. But then I saved this new document, and suddenly, the odd behaviour was back.

I have figured out what was wrong. The problem is these two lines in the syntax definition file:
CharStart = '
CharEnd = '
This setting conflicts with the word wrap function. Does anyone know a workaround for this (so that I may keep word wrap turned on, keep single quotes as character markers, and still see the whole line)?

Regards,
HY

Being able to have more than one character on two other lines in the syntax definition file, i.e. like this:
StringStart = "'
StringEnd = "'
would be nice. I then could take the single quotes off the CharStart and CharEnd settings.

HY

Use:

StringAlt = '

instead of the charStart/End ... the Char settings are intended to delimit mnemonics for single characters only, hence the attempt to keep it all on one line ...

Thanks.

Do you also know how to make the escape backslash work outside quotes? I'm in the middle of a long perl script, and this line:
$curr =~ s/'/\"/g;
destroys all syntax highlighting because the first single quote is interpreted as a string start...

HY