editorconfig/editorconfig.github.com — comment on commit 93965b91877638bfb2355db25bf3fe1cc16040a9
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By xuhdev:

On Saturday, February 11, 2012, Trey Hunner <
reply@reply.github.com>
wrote:
> I just thought of another solution to this problem. If we do need to use
`;` in a key/value pair in the future we could add quoting or escaping.
Thoughts on this versus removing comments at ends of lines?
>
> Also, should we allow using `#` for commenting at the beginning of a
line? Currently this is allowed (due to inih).
>

Yes, we could use escaping. And I suggest to add a new option to turn this
escaping on or off.

Keep sharp as comment symbol will meet some people's habit. Let's keep it.