I didn't mean commenting arguments for documentation but commenting them out while you're writing and testing the script. I.e. this won't work: command `# a

I didn't mean commenting arguments for documentation but commenting them out while you're writing and testing the script. I.e. this won't work: command `# a comment` \ # --longopt1 \ --longopt2 arg \ argument AFAIK there's no hack for this. EDIT: Oh, `# a comment`. Didn't notice that. I'm going to explore it, thanks.