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man: document the details of continuations and comments

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-11-08 09:36:52 +01:00 committed by Yu Watanabe
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backslash is replaced by a space character. This may be used to wrap long lines. The limit on
line length is very large (currently 1 MB), but it is recommended to avoid such long lines and
use multiple directives, variable substitution, or other mechanism as appropriate for the given
file type.</para>
file type. When a comment line or lines follow a line ending with a backslash, the comment block
is ignored, so the continued line is concatenated with whatever follows the comment block.</para>
<example><programlisting>[Section A]
KeyOne=value 1
@ -85,6 +86,12 @@ KeyTwo=value 2
Setting="something" "some thing" "…"
KeyTwo=value 2 \
value 2 continued
[Section C]
KeyThree=value 2\
# this line is ignored
; this line is ignored too
value 2 continued
</programlisting></example>
<para>Boolean arguments used in configuration files can be written in