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Build ID: I20090227-1422 I am always having "Escape text when pasting into string literal" enabled. However, sometimes I paste some text that is already escaped (e.g. from another String) and it gets escaped for a second time. Please consider an option where text is not escaped if its already in escaped form. E.g. Hello \n World becomes Hello \\n World which is wrong. More information:
I think guessing whether a string is already escaped would be even more confusing. If you don't want the string to be escaped, simply paste it outside of a string literal (surround with " later, or temporarily add a " to close the current string).
Agree with Markus. Plus: you can toggle the smart insert mode (Ctrl+Shift+Insert) before pasting.
(In reply to comment #1) > I think guessing whether a string is already escaped would be even more > confusing. If you don't want the string to be escaped, simply paste it outside > of a string literal (surround with " later, or temporarily add a " to close the > current string). > That is my current (annoying) work around.
Duplicate of bug 72869. I like the proposal "unescape string when you copy from it." How about a quick fix to escape/unescape one level?
(In reply to comment #4) > Duplicate of bug 72869. Nope. This bug is about pasting in a a string literal. bug 72869 is about copying from a string literal.
See also bug 332205.
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