shell mode \ construct should or should not work with comments?

shell mode \ construct should or should not work with comments?

[Samuel Wales]

i want to do

  echo hi \
           there \
           # big \
           guy

but bash does not recognize such comments.  would be great if it could.

but in emacs land, shell mode in emacs 25, does think that \ at eol in
comments is significant wrt indentation.  shouldn't it follow bash?

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Re: shell mode \ construct should or should not work with comments?

[Samuel Wales]

[i ack that my wish that bash would support comments after
\-terminated lines might or might not be impossible as exemplified in
prev post as it might be interpreted as part of the line or something;
it might or might not require new syntax.]

On 1/12/21, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> i want to do
>
>   echo hi \
>            there \
>            # big \
>            guy
>
> but bash does not recognize such comments.  would be great if it could.
>
> but in emacs land, shell mode in emacs 25, does think that \ at eol in
> comments is significant wrt indentation.  shouldn't it follow bash?
>
> --
> The Kafka Pandemic
>
> Please learn what misopathy is.
> https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
>


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