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