The escape character setting in the spec file, just as it is in the actual language is used to treat the next character as a literal, and in the case of crimson, the colour setting is ignored.
for example using the following code:
"She said \" Hello world\".\n"
without a '\' set as an escape character, only upto the 2nd " would have the correct colour. But having the escapecharacter set correctly, the entire line would be coloured correctly.
WWSS
2 hours ago