[darcs-users] default boring list

Andrew Pimlott andrew at pimlott.net
Fri Sep 10 01:09:34 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:23:04AM +0100, Jamie Webb wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:25:18PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > David, what comment syntax would you favor?  The issue is it must allow
> > comment characters to be escaped, but multiple levels of escaping can be
> > confusing.  What is least likely to confuse people?
> 
> How about a star, or maybe a pair of them? Unconventional, but no need
> to escape since it shouldn't appear as the first character of a regex.

That's a nice hack, but it might be better to allow the same comment
syntax in every prefs file.

Andrew




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