[Gnuplot-info] Comments and continuation lines

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

With the exception of Gnuplot, every parser I've seen strips out comments 
first, then glues lines together.  Shell, pfctl, you name it; it makes it 
easy to temporarily comment out a line without having to worry about the 
following line.

Except for Gnuplot; it does it backwards (IMHO).  For example, when 
playing with some line styles etc, I want to keep the original line "as 
is", but merely commented out.  Instead, I have to remove it bodily, and 
make sure that there is a dummy line after it like so:

    #
    # Too small to be worth plotting.
    #    datafile using 1:($5)	title 'Proxy', \
    #    datafile using 1:($6)	title 'Pause', \
    # Need a line after a commented continuation line.
    #

    plot blah blah with above lines removed

Most un-intuitive...  Any chance that this can be fixed in 4.7, or at 
least made an option for traditional users?

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