[Gnuplot-info] Trailing backslash on a comment

[Dave H. <da...@ho...>]

Being a good little developer, when I quickly change some code I retain 
the old line as a comment so that I can put it back.  Occasionally the 
line I comment out is a continued line, but this seems to make Gnuplot 
think that the following line is also commented out, leading to, well, not 
a lot.

Example:

#       datafile with old parameters \
    plot datafile blah blah \
	datafile with modified parameters \
	etc

The entire "plot" command is ignored!  It seems that continuations take 
precedence over comments; in hindsight it's probably reasonable in a 
general sense, but somewhat confusing to novice Gnuplotters like me.

-- Dave