Re: Property files and comments

That line in SciTEGlobal.properties is a mistake in the SciTE4AutoIt3 
distribution version and should be on 2 lines. It will be changed in the 
next version.

Jos

Op dinsdag 4 januari 2022 om 04:09:59 UTC+1 schreef Neil Hodgson:

> BugFix@AutoIt:
>
> > Until now, I had assumed that comments in property files were on a 
> separate line, preceded by #.
>
> That is correct. The code scans through whitespace (space or tab) and if 
> the first non-whitespace character is ‘#’ then the line is ignored.
>
> > Now I found in the "SciTEGlobal.properties" (SciTE4AutoIt) the following 
> entry:
> > fold.comment=1 #fold.comment=2 #folding inside commentblocks - Only 
> available in SciTE4AutoIt3 version
> > When I read this key ( print(props['fold.comment']) ), I get the value 
> "1". So the rest in the line is treated as comment.
>
> Maybe that is a SciTE4AutoIt extension. The reason that ‘#’ is not treated 
> as a comment start elsewhere on a line by SciTE is that that would make 
> using ‘#’ in settings (like colours) more difficult.
>
> For example this setting would be truncated:
> style.python.0=fore:#808080
>
> Neil
>
>

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