SublimeText2 plugin for escaping code. Useful for languages that don't support heredoc

Default (OSX).sublime-keymap

[  
    {   
        "keys": ["command+ctrl+e"], "command": "escape_code"
    }  
]

EscapeCode.py

import sublime, sublime_plugin

# Transforms the selected text by escaping especial characters (\t, \n, \r,...)
# Made following this tutorial
# http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/python-tutorials/how-to-create-a-sublime-text-2-plugin/
# SublimeText2 API reference http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/api_reference.html
class EscapeCodeCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
	def run(self, edit):
		for region in self.view.sel():
			content = self.view.substr(region)
			content = content.replace('\\', '\\\\')
			content = content.replace('\t', '\\t')
			content = content.replace('\r', '\\r')
			content = content.replace('\n', '\\n')
			content = content.replace('\b', '\\b')
			content = content.replace('\f', '\\f')
			content = content.replace('\'', '\\\'')
			content = content.replace('\"', '\\\"')
			self.view.replace(edit, region, content)