thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they were. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > Crístian Viana wrote: > > www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world > > For it to be a valid comment, the '#' MUST be the first character on the > line. That's always been the convention. A FEW programs will recognise > the '#' elsewhere in the line as the start of the comment but you should > NEVER EVER rely upon that. > > > I don't think this behavior is consistent, comments shouldn't matter. > > is that a desirable feature or a bug? > > It's totally consistent and highly desirable. > > > Be lucky, > > Neil > http://www.neiljw.com > > > > -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]