[Tcsh] Interactive comments for tcsh?

[M G P]

You aren't wrong for using : to introduce comments.
https://archive.org/details/theunixcommandlanguage/EPSON008.JPG
Given this writing, the  use of : for introducing comments dates back to the Thompson Shell. Maybe it's for use on simple comments. It's possible to escape parsed characters, though.

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Is there any possibility/interest in adding an 'interactive_comments" option for tcsh like is in bash?

I'm interested because I often make notes of procedures/commands that I want to cat and paste into the terminal to repeat at some point and want to be able to add comments to them.  Stuff like:
mkdir foobar   # pick any name
cd foobar
ln -s ../bletch/bin/* ./    # include bletch commands

I have been using ' ;: ' to introduce comments, but the shell still tries to parse the rest of the line and if there are any quotes, semi-colons, less-thans, or greater-thans, it doesn't work properly

-WRSomsky
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