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"> > As for smart editors that aren't smart enough, I'd suggest upgrading to
> > something smarter or downgrading to something dumber.  Emacs and vi should
> > both work fine.
>
> As I said, it's an obstacle. Obstacles aren't insurmountable, just annoying.
>
> > Is it common for developers to have their programming language selection
> > determined by the limitations of their text editor?
>
> It's common for people to load up files in whatever editor they happen to
> be using at the moment. The scattered single quotes are going to look funny,
> and people are going to think it's an odd choice, once they realize that
> quoted strings aren't being delimited.
>

I  put a single quote line into codewright just now. It turns the rest of the line red.
Big deal. Get a new editor.