Sorry, but just after sending the patch with bash style comments "#", i was 
thinking we could also have c style comments wiht "//". In that way, we may 
choose comment style when we use colored syntax for crash.
Thanks.
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From: "Dave Anderson" <anderson(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:44 PM
To: "Discussion list for crash utility usage,maintenance and development" 
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Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Patch to add comments
 ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com> a écrit :
>
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello Dave,
> >> A small cosmetic pach to add comments in the crash flow.
> >> Of course we may use !# to do this, but to call a shell just for a
> >> comment seems rather hard ?
> >
> > True -- but your patch that makes "#" an actual command is
> > way-overkill.
> >
> > Why not do this:
> >
> > --- main.c      20 Mar 2012 18:11:46 -0000      1.130
> > +++ main.c      10 Apr 2012 13:59:45 -0000
> > @@ -768,6 +768,9 @@ exec_command(void)
> >         if (is_datatype_command())
> >                 goto reattempt;
> >
> > +       if (STRNEQ(args[0], "#"))
> > +               return;
> > +
> >        if (!(pc->flags & MINIMAL_MODE) &&
> >            is_gdb_command(TRUE, FAULT_ON_ERROR))
> >                goto reattempt;
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
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> Thanks, simple is better!
> Nevertheless, do we keep something in the help file or do we just
> "know" the way to push comment ?
> Olivier
 A line should probably be added to the "help input" page,
 which is the input_info[] string array in help.c.
 Dave
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