On 19/01/2015 13:17, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
CodeTools syntax highlighter won't recognize the syntax as characters
either (delphi 7 highlighter doesn't recognize it as a character
escaping as well)
Add that to the bugtracker please (as synedit HL issue).
It is probably easy to fix, sim
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Mattias Gaertner <
nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote:
> FYI: Codetools do not have a syntax highlighter. In Lazarus the
> highligher of synedit (TSynPasSyn) is used.
>
I was hoping to hear that. I had some concerns about it at the time I was
looking at SynEdit's c
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:02 AM, leledumbo
wrote:
>
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu7.html
>
The beginning of the section. Shame on me.
"The compiler is rather sloppy about the characters it allows after the
caret, but in general one should assume only letters"
Looking at scanne
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:17:52 -0500
Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
>[...]
> a:=^M; // char(13)
>[...]
> CodeTools syntax highlighter won't recognize the syntax as characters
> either (delphi 7 highlighter doesn't recognize it as a character escaping
> as well)
FYI: Codetools do not have a syntax hig
> Should it be added to this page:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse8.html#x20-190001.8 ? (need a
bug report created?) or is it documented somewhere else?
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu7.html
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On 19/01/2015 13:29, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
Not sure which pascal its inherited from... but Delphi 7 does
compile it too.
It was certainly a feature of the first TurboPascal, and perhaps was in
even earlier Pascal compilers, enabling simple insertion of control
characters from the
2015-01-19 14:17 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Boyarintsev :
> Hello,
>
> today I saw this kind of character escaping:
> var
> a :char;
> begin
> a:=^M; // char(13)
> writeln(^X); // char(24)
> end;
>
> The code of the character is derived as ord(letter)-ord('A')+1
> Not sure which pascal its inherited
hmm.. the character escaping is somewhat tricky.
The following code compiles:
writeln(^_^));
thanks,
Dmitry
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Dmitry Boyarintsev <
skalogryz.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today I saw this kind of character escaping:
> var
> a :char;
> begin
> a:=^M; // c
Hello,
today I saw this kind of character escaping:
var
a :char;
begin
a:=^M; // char(13)
writeln(^X); // char(24)
end;
The code of the character is derived as ord(letter)-ord('A')+1
Not sure which pascal its inherited from... but Delphi 7 does compile it
too.
I vaguely remember it seeing
