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authorJoerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1995-08-15 19:40:26 +0000
committerJoerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1995-08-15 19:40:26 +0000
commitb5cfa4b2c497b23368f6ba87bbe9690a988fe491 (patch)
treea3eb07a4587bd0c04c373afa69a1d7d78690b2be
parent665994990bd7a3e73482896e5261f03b722c118e (diff)
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Notes
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/mail/lex.c11
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/mail/mail.12
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/lex.c b/usr.bin/mail/lex.c
index 3428203b14e7..2c7cb3e59cd0 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/lex.c
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/lex.c
@@ -458,6 +458,17 @@ lex(word)
register struct cmd *cp;
extern struct cmd cmdtab[];
+ /*
+ * ignore trailing chars after `#'
+ *
+ * lines with beginning `#' are comments
+ * spaces befor `#' are ignored in execute()
+ */
+
+ if (*word == '#')
+ *(word+1) = '\0';
+
+
for (cp = &cmdtab[0]; cp->c_name != NOSTR; cp++)
if (isprefix(word, cp->c_name))
return(cp);
diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index ecf586887867..376af05cebcf 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ argument
goes to the
.Ar n Ns 'th
previous message and prints it.
+.It Ic \&#
+ignore the remainder of the line as a comment.
.It Ic \&?
Prints a brief summary of commands.
.It Ic \&!