If you commented out a line of code that ended in a backslash it would be a continuation onto the next line, so unless half a line makes sense you would actually want the comment to apply to both, so the _shells_ are dumb.
Of course if _I_ was the Scintilla maintainer I would just say "Don't do that, its silly" :grin: -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2715#issuecomment-752323483