Re: [exim] Whitespace and line continuation

Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.

I suppose they could put a backslash on the beginning of the data and have
the space there =)

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