Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'

Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.

* jc/custom-comment-char:
  Allow custom "comment char"

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index e828b37..89d6c70 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ int precomposed_unicode = -1; /* see probe_utf8_pathname_composition() */
 struct startup_info *startup_info;
 unsigned long pack_size_limit_cfg;
 
+/*
+ * The character that begins a commented line in user-editable file
+ * that is subject to stripspace.
+ */
+char comment_line_char = '#';
+
 /* Parallel index stat data preload? */
 int core_preload_index = 0;