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Syntax defs for quotation marks

#1

OK, this is a bit over my head. I am trying to make sublime work as it does for Plain Text, but syntax highlight text between quotation marks (bear with me). So far I have poached and shortened the syntax mode for JSON, which works, sorta. Double quotes are fine. What I would love is to also highlight text enclosed by literary quotation marks (left and right are different - #147 and #148, or unicode 201C and 201D, respectively), and I am just not good enough with the regex system used within sublime in order to pull it off. TBH, JSON mode comes with word break indentations I cannot get rid of, and I’d love to simply have a Plain text mode - just with quote highlights.
Does anyone maybe have an example, or could possibly help with this?
Edit for clarification: just referring to syntax highlight, not select, find, or replace.

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#2

Depending on whether #147/#148 are hex or decimal the following snippet might need to be tweaked, but it should do what you want.

%YAML 1.2
---
# See http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/syntax.html
name: Plain Text (Quoted)
scope: text.plain.quoted

contexts:
  main:
    - include: double-quoted-strings
    - include: single-quoted-strings
    - include: other1-quoted-strings
    - include: other2-quoted-strings

  double-quoted-strings:
    - match: \"
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.begin.txt
      push: double-quoted-string-body

  double-quoted-string-body:
    - meta_scope: string.quoted.double.txt
    - match: \"
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.end.txt
      pop: 1

  single-quoted-strings:
    - match: \"
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.begin.txt
      push: single-quoted-string-body

  single-quoted-string-body:
    - meta_scope: string.quoted.single.txt
    - match: \"
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.end.txt
      pop: 1

  other1-quoted-strings:
    - match: \x{147}
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.begin.txt
      push: other1-quoted-string-body

  other1-quoted-string-body:
    - meta_scope: string.quoted.other.txt
    - match: \x{148}
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.end.txt
      pop: 1

  other2-quoted-strings:
    - match: \x{201C}
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.begin.txt
      push: other2-quoted-string-body

  other2-quoted-string-body:
    - meta_scope: string.quoted.other.txt
    - match: \x{201D}
      scope: punctuation.definition.string.end.txt
      pop: 1
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