;; beginning of a word. In the shell, words are separated by
;; metacharacters. The list of special chars is taken from
;; the single-unix spec of the shell command language (under
- ;; `quoting') but with `$' removed.
- ("\\(?:[^|&;<>(`\\\"' \t\n]\\|\\${\\|\\\\ \\)\\(#+\\)" (1 "_"))
+ ;; `quoting') but with `$' removed. Also -- if there's something like
+ ;; \ #foo, then that's not a comment, unless the backslash itself
+ ;; is backslashed.
+ ("\\(?:[^|&;<>(`\\\"' \t\n]\\|\\${\\|\\(?:[^\\]\\|^\\)\\\\\\(?:\\\\\\\\\\)*.\\)\\(#+\\)" (1 "_"))
;; In addition, `#' at the beginning of closed parentheses
;; does not start a comment if the parentheses are not isolated
;; by metacharacters, excluding [()].