Re: [Nano-devel] nanorc.nanorc end-of-line comments

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 17-01-18 om 19:50 schreef Mike Frysinger:
> On 17 Jan 2018 11:31, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Op 16-01-18 om 22:02 schreef Mike Frysinger:
> > > personally i lean towards the latter: - for color values which aren't 
> > > alpha-only, require quotes (or maybe always require quotes).
> >
> > No, color names and numbers should never require quotes.
>
> i'm not talking about color names/numbers, i'm talking about #rrggbb type 
> values

Those are what I meant -- "color numbers", "color codes", "color encodings".

> (or any other proposed values like rgb(r,g,b)) which is what this thread was
> about.  those should require quotes imo.  trying to support unquoted values
> everywhere will only add pointless levels of pain in trying to disambiguate
> the grammar (and sometimes it'll be impossible).

Those hex color codes can only occur after a color command, with maybe an
intervening modifier.  Doesn't sound hard to me to get right, even when
allowing trailing comments.

Benno