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I'm trying to implement some kind of scripting language and would like to have textedits separator as the

typical ";". But it says bad argument... Have I to escape the character or something?

I'm trying to implement some kind of scripting language and would like to have textedits separator as the
typical ";". But it says bad argument... Have I to escape the character or something? 

separator-for-textedit

You have to use a backslash in front of the semicolon. \;

No, what I mean is a output separator, there "\;" doesn't work...

Anyone here to answer to the question, please ? 

textedit needs no extras to output newlines

You might want to check out some of what I have done with Scheme for Max (integrated Scheme scripting in Max). If you want to be able to build scripts in Max messages, as one can with S4M, a lisp-family syntax works very well because the fundamental units of syntax have no special meaning to Max (spaces and parens). Both commas and semi-colons do have special meaning in Max, and messages boxes do not respect line breaking. However, they happily accept space separated s-expression syntax and you can even build expressions with $ sign interpolation as the $ doesn't mean anything special to Lisps.

Videos on Scheme for Max here: https://youtube.com/c/musicwithlisp.

Separator for textedit