> It also works (in Anton's example) without the dot, as in:
[snip]
> . if (2=2) \{\"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17
[snip]
> . if (2=2) \{\
> \"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17
[snip]
> . if (2=2) \{
> \"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17
Sorry, I can't confirm that this works. I get "Test not passed"
in all three cases. Have you perhaps declared a blank line macro?
It is absolutely essential that the backslash is the
last character on the line, because only the sequence
<backslash><newline> gets removed, effectively replacing
.if conditional \{\
stuff
.}
by
.if conditional \{stuff
.}
Similarly,
.if conditional \{\
\" comment
stuff
.}
*will* introduce a blank line, whereas
.if conditional \{\
.\" comment
stuff
.}
won't.
