> Mouss wrote: > you are fighting against the system. and usually at least, the system > wins and you lose. > > there is no reason to prefer: > > joe jim # blah blah > > to > > # blah blah > joe jim
Sure, I 'm fighting the system. But I'm willing to alter the system also so there is less fighting :-). And there IS a reason to prefer one over the other: neatness in a large aliases file, and clean documentation. When things are lined up in columns it is easier to visually scan them, and determine if anything is out of place. All common programming environments support both start of line and end of line comments, I think for a good reason. This is particularly true when a variety of sysadmins may touch a particular file.
