How to disable the Smart Quotes macro in WinEdt

WinEdt is a great editor for tex/latex files.
It has a "smart quotes" macro - which could be useful --- unless one wants to include some verbatim material.

Inside verbatim environments we typically want the ASCII double quote character, not the latex code for double quote.

How to disable the "smart quotes" macro for .tex files in WinEdt 5.5.

  1. Options menu, Settings
  2. Click on the "Active Strings" Tab
  3. In the list of active strings, scroll down and select the quotation mark character "
  4. To the right, look at the section labeled "Action" ("Smart Quote.edt" is the action)
  5. Uncheck the box On Type [Tex]

By unchecking this box the macro will not be executed when the " key is typed.