Manuel Ortega wrote:
> I very much hope that one thing will be changed. Currently '#' only starts
> a comment when it's followed by a space, if I understand correctly. Please
> make it instead behave like almost every other language that uses '#' as a
> comment character, and *don't* require that it be followed by a space.
>
> The choice of '"' as the comment character in vimscript of course proved a
> bit awkward, but forcing it to be '#<space>' rather than '#' is even worse
> IMO.
>
> I note that if you look in the dictionary of comment characters found
> inside the popular NerdCommenter plugin, there are exactly ZERO entries for
> which '#<space>' is mandatory. There are five entries that indicate a
> style preference for '#<space>' but allow '#'. And there are 134 entries
> for which '#', with no following space, is a comment character. (For 125
> of these 134, that's the primary or sole comment character).
>
> If one of the goals of vim9script is to be more like what a user expects,
> then '#' and not '#<space>' should be the comment-starter.
Where do you read that there must be a space after the #?
There is the requirement that there is space before it, or it is at the
start of the line.
Otherwise it could be confused with an autoload script item.
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