[PD-dev] Saving comments

[David Rush]

Soo...I'm getting really tired of directly editing my *.pd files to escape
the newlines in my comment objects so that they stay readable when I
restore the canvas. After reading into the code, this looks like the root
cause is the insistence on using a binbuf as an intermediate representation
for the literal text.

So I have two questions:

1 - is this a thing that anyone actually cares about?
2 - are there any known pitfalls to adopting a more literal intermediate
representation?

re question 2: I've not really read through the entire parser, but I
recognize that there is meant to be some compatibility with the TCL reader.
TCL *can* represent complex string literals, so can that facility be
leveraged, or would that have to be brought into the general PD patch
parser (with all of the attendant complications)

- d
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