Property files and comments

[BugFix@AutoIt]

Until now, I had assumed that comments in property files were on a separate line, preceded by #. 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.

However, if I copy this line into the "SciTEUser.properties" and now read out the key, I also get the comment as belonging to the value: "1 #fold.comment=2 #folding inside commentblocks - Only available in SciTE4AutoIt3 version".
This confuses me. Are comments treated differently in the property files or how can this behavior be explained?

Best Regards

BugFix

[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

[Jos]

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:

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Thank you for your answers. And before I forget: Happy New Year to everyone here.