[fpc-devel] Some thoughts on multi-line string support, and a possible syntax that I think is perfectly clean and Pascal-ish.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Pascal Riekenberg wrote:

>> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> hat am 4. Juli 2019 um 10:43 geschrieben:
>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Pascal Riekenberg wrote:
>> > What about a Lazarus-Addon / Codetools extention that generates an old style
>> > multi-line string from a selection and the other way around to make old style
>> > multi-line strings editable again, so you can keep indention and trailing and
>> > leading whitespaces and special characters.
>> 
>> This already exists.
>> 
>> Edit/Multipaste
>> 
>
> Oh, have never seen this! But i thought of a more convenient shortcut function:
> a) if i a selection is present: build multi-line string from selection in old style format
> b) if cursor is inside an old style multi-line string: open simple editor to edit and
> regenerate multi-line string after editor is closed.
>
> Perhaps a) could be extended/switched to generate external file and insert $INCLUDESTRINGFILE
> directive.

Well, first $INCLUDESTRINGFILE must be integrated in the compiler.

I proposed something similar in the past on the lazarus mailing list, to
quote a block of text. I need it mainly for SQL statements.

So I am all for this 'extension' :-)

Michael.