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FichteFoll on Feb 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

I hope they won't use this awkward "double-escaped backward-slashes in reglular expressions" environment. YAML[1] is much better for this.

[1]: https://github.com/SublimeText/AAAPackageDev/blob/master/Syn...

espadrine on Feb 26, 2014 [–]

> I hope they won't use this awkward "double-escaped backward-slashes in reglular expressions"

Yes, they will[0]. YAML is definitely better, but I believe they have a strong opinion against YAML[1].

[0]: https://github.com/atom/language-toml/blob/master/grammars/t...

[1]: https://github.com/mojombo/toml

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