Currently Geany, unlike other editors, is using double colons (::) as
comment_single. What is the reason?
REM (with trailing space) is much more appropriate. A citation:
" REM is the standards-compliant, documented statement to insert comments in
batch files;
double colons are a non-documented and non-compliant way to insert comments".
I will give two examples when using "::" is problematic.
First example:
IF 1 equ 1 (
:: Comment line 1
ECHO Do something
REM Comment line 2
:: Comment line 2
)
Here double colons give an error: ") was unexpected at this time."
Second example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.com" ^
:: /log="%log_file%" ^
/command ^
"open %serverURL% -hostkey=* -privatekey=%keys%\%ppk% -rawsettings
TryAgent=0 AuthKI=0" ^
"put ""%file_send%""" ^
"exit"
Because line continuation "^" is applicable to empty label (::), double colons
here are commenting out all lines starting from the second to the very end,
instead of commenting out only a single line.
I believe comment_single should be "comment_single=REM "
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