[Lazarus] Problem with editor

[ik]

It happened to me as well. It seems that VIM (or a web site you copy
from) is using a specific unicode char for ', while FPC expect the
ASCII value of ', and does not know about other types of ' .

Ido

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Johann Spies <jspies at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> I am a total newbie with Lazarus, but not to programming. I has been
> my hobby for years and I have at times played with Turbo Pascal, Dbase
> III+, Basic, Turbo Prolog, Python, Ruby, Ocaml and others.
>
> I have the following problem with Lazarus - illustrated by the
> following two lines.  The first was entered using vim, the second
> (using the same keystrokes) using the Lazarus IDE.  The second line
> would not compile.
>
>  Button1.caption := 'Press again';
>  Button1.caption := ´Press again´;
>
> I would like to know where I can set the preferences of the editor to
> correct this.
>
> Regards
> Johann
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