How Do I Stop Curly/Smart Quotes in the Variables Action?

[Lloydi]

I use KM to generate some custom HTML. To do this, I set/append HTML to a variable, then write the file. All working fine but if I ever try to edit an attribute value, the double quotes either side of the value change from " to “ or ”. This has the unfortunate effect of breaking the page output.

So, is there any way of preventing it from doing this?

[tiffle]

Oh - this takes me back a while when I too asked this same question. The solution is in your system preferences as described in this thread

Why Does KM Change Plain Quotes into Smart Quotes?

In a Set Variable to Text Action I've noticed some odd and quite unwanted behaviour as follows: I'm trying to set a variable to a regex pattern for use later in the macro I'm creating. The regex pattern is this: span class="meta-header">((\d+) images) I've noticed that when I type the second quote KM changes it to a different character, namely ” as opposed to what I actually typed which is this - ". Which is really annoying as then the regex doesn't work as it should! Here's a link to a video…

I hope that helps.

[ccstone]

@Lloydi

any way of preventing it

Hey Lloyd,

You're probably running into Apple trying to be helpful. See this in the Keyboard Maestro Editor.

-Chris

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[devoy]

EXCELLENT gang! I ran into this today and was copy/pasting from BBEdit to get around it. Love this forum and community.

(How come every time software tries to be "helpful" things get worse?)