Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] config.txt: describe handling of whitespace further

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 1:16 AM Dragan Simic [off-list ref] wrote:

On 2024-03-21 06:11, Eric Sunshine wrote:

quoted

It should be possible to rephrase it to be more definite, while
dropping the final sentence altogether. Perhaps:

    Whitespace surrounding `name`, `=` and `value` is ignored. If
    `value` is surrounding by double quotation marks (`"`), all
    characters within the quoted string are retained verbatim,
    including whitespace. Comments starting with either `#` or `;` and
    extending to the end of line are discarded. A line that defines a
    value can be continued to the next line by ending it with a `\`;
    the backslash and the end-of-line are stripped.

Looking good to me, thanks.  I'll include it into the v5, with
a small grammar issue fixed.

For completeness, I should mention that I intentionally reordered the
topics so that the most common/important ones are mentioned earlier
rather than later; i.e. (1) surrounding whitespace ignored, (2)
double-quoted value, (3) comments, (4) `\` line-splicing with.