Escape characters in quoted "replace" values are not respected

[lucasvieites]

Hi there,
I have a couple of snippets that include escape characters, such as \n and \t. According to the espanso docs: "Note that strings using \n as the line terminator character, or \t for tab-spacing, or beginning with a YAML special character [...], must be quoted.".

Using this snippet as an example: "<ul>\n<li>$|$</li>\n</ul>"
When I add double quotes in the replace field in espanso-gui, it prints the quotes and the escape characters literally.
When I add the quotes directly in the config file, the snippet is printed as expected:

<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>

[smeech]

Having added the string via the GUI, how does it appear in the .yml file?
The output you're describing suggests you'll see the replace: value has single, or no quotes.
How would espanso-gui know you're not wanting the literal string?

[lucasvieites]

I've attached a couple of screenshots.
When I add a new item with double quotes in the GUI it looks like this:

And in the config file it looks like this; it has single quotes around the code:

If I go and edit the config file, remove the single quotes and save, the GUI respects the change, and shows the item as follows:

The line feeds are not shown in the GUI, but it doesn't touch the replace value.

This is fine, and is working as expected/designed.

To answer your second question: espanso-gui can't know the intentions of the user, but perhaps you can add a checkbox labeled "Escape chars" (or similar) that indicates that the user wants to maintain the double quotes as-is.