Re: [exim] Whitespace and line continuation

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Sherman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Whitespace and line continuation
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Marc Sherman wrote:

> The fix was straightforward (changing each ":\" to ": \"), but it still feels
> strange to me; it seems to me that line continuation should be replaced with a
> single space, rather than nothing, in the resulting config line after
> whitespace trimming.


If that were the case, it would not be possible to continue a line
without inserting a space, and I did not want to do that. There are
cases (e.g. long lookups, long regular expressions) where you might well
want to continue a line without having a space inserted.

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