Sublime Text Highlights Heredocs

Sublime Text allows an awesome syntax highlighting trick. If you name a here document something generic, like HEREDOC, all the text within will be highlighted in one color, just like a Ruby string.

But if you name your here document RUBY, Sublime will override the normal highlighting and maintain Ruby-specific syntax highlighting within the here document. Same goes for SQL, JS, and probably more.

This is cool because it makes here documents that contain code a lot easier to write and debug.

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