On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> The documentation is not quite clear about this, 6.2 says:
> | Blank lines in the file, and lines starting with a # character
> | (ignoring leading white space) are treated as comments and are
> | ignored. Note: a # character other than at the beginning of a line
> | is not treated specially, and does not introduce a comment.
>
> Is there a situation where "leading white space" is not ignored?
No. This is the comment in the code:
/* Find the true start of the physical line - leading spaces are
always ignored. */
> If this is indeed the case, could this be made clear in spec.txt?
Yes.
> PS: The reason I am asking is because I got a bug-report asking to
> make it possible to indent .include and .if to make the file more
> readable and I ended up trying whether it already works (it does)
> instead of pointing to the docs as I usually can do. ;-)
The docs contain this example:
hosts_lookup = a.b.c \
.include /some/file
(admittedly that's a continuation line....)
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