Comments in .exrc?

Robert Hartman rhartman at thestepchild.sgi.com
Fri May 3 09:00:06 AEST 1991


In article <26748 at adm.brl.mil> RSS%CALSTATE.bitnet at vm.usc.edu (Richard S. Smith) writes:
>Here's an interesting one:  I'm looking for a way to selectively
>comment out certain lines in my .exrc file.  ...
>
>Richard Smith - RSS at CALSTATE.BITNET

It isn't documented, but in some versions of ex the double-quote in the
leftmost column is, I believe, taken as a comment.

-r



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