Comments in .exrc?

[Rouben Rostamian]

In article <26748 at adm.brl.mil> RSS%CALSTATE.bitnet at vm.usc.edu (Richard S. Smith) writes:
>I suppose the underlying question is whether ex has a "comment" or
>"no-op" command.  There's none mentioned in my (Xenix) manuals.

The "comment" symbol is a double-quote sign in the beginning
of the line, as in:

" This text will be skipped
" This too.

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