Hi Lukas,
there is no side effect when you simply delete it.
As far as I know, this editor language plugin was introduced to fix the
"single quote in inline assembly" problem (e.g. something like
asm {
nop; don't write such comments with single quotes
}
)
Bye
Daniel
Lukas Zeller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Codewarrior for years now (Mac, Win, Linux, Palm, Symbian),
> so I have lots of code written with the IDE. Now suddenly I found that
> in some of my C++ sources, the colorizer stumbles over doublequote
> char literals like:
>
> char c = '"'; // singlequote doublequote singlequote
>
> or
>
> char c = '\"'; // singlequote backslash doublequote single-quote
>
> The effect is that all text from the doubleqoute until the next
> occurrence of a doublequote is displayed in the color for literal
> strings.
>
> After comparing my installation to a colleague's, I found that I have
> a plugin in the Editor section called "cpp_no_char_const" he has not.
> I removed it and now my colorizer works fine again :-)
>
> What worries me is that I haven't the slightest idea how this plugin
> came into my installation and why such a strange-named plugin exists
> at all. I know that this used to work a long time, and ceased to work
> probably a month or two ago.
> Aside from CW Win 8.3 I have also CW Palm 9.2 (merged) installed.
> Around the time when this happened, I also installed CW Symbian 2.5
> Personal (now transferred to another machine). However this was a
> separate installation (no merge offered by the installer,
> unfortunately).
>
> Any ideas what could be the benefit of "cpp_no_char_const"? Any reason
> to not simply delete it?
>
> Regards,
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