How to ouput curly brackets in text

[aatwo]

Hi. I'm playing around with VoiceAttack for some software dev and a lot of IDEs implement a concept called code snippets where you can type a keyword and the IDE intellisense will allow it to autocomplete the keyword to a user defined code snippet.

For example "comment_line" might auto complete to "//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------".

I have a whole bunch of these and I was trying to implement them using VA but it's stripping out any curly brackets (I.E. {}). Is there a way round this? I tried using the "Quick Input" and "set windows clipboard"+"ctrl+v" commands but got the same result with both.

[edit] side note - I wanted to mention how enjoyable it is to be able to say "make it so" to launch my applications from my IDE

[TheThingIs]

To indicate a literal curly bracket, simply prefix the curly bracket with a pipe symbol: |{ or |}.