> Probably not to new users who are the ones fiddling with conf files, using # 
> for a comment is "well known", but whats this #~ thing? And do I leave the ~ 
> or what? Have had all those during various support interactions.

This is definitely a good reason to use just the simple `#` then.

> its not clear from the G* docs for 
> [keyfile](https://docs.gtk.org/glib/struct.KeyFile.html) (can you see where 
> the file format is described?) if space at the start of the setting line is 
> ok or not, so not having a space on lines which are settings is best, so only 
> the comment marker is removed. 
> [↩](https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/3413#user-content-fnref-1-91e667f444008f5b533110d95cdef987)

It seems to be somewhat documented here

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/main/glib/gkeyfile.c#L76

but I'm not sure if keys can start with spaces. I used the `isspace()` check 
skipping spaces to be on the safe side.

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