[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Incorrect comment delimiter (comment_single) in filetypes.batch file (Windows batch) (#1912)

[dyura]

Currently Geany,  unlike other editors, is using double colons (::) as comment_single. What is the reason? 
REM (with trailing space) is much more appropriate. A citation:
" REM is the standards-compliant, documented statement to insert comments in batch files;
  double colons are a non-documented and non-compliant way to insert comments".
I will give two examples when using "::" is problematic.
First example:
IF 1 equ 1 (
	:: Comment line 1
	ECHO Do something
	REM Comment line 2
	:: Comment line 2
)
Here double colons give an error: ") was unexpected at this time." 
Second example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.com" ^ 
:: /log="%log_file%" ^
  /command ^
    "open %serverURL% -hostkey=* -privatekey=%keys%\%ppk% -rawsettings TryAgent=0 AuthKI=0" ^
    "put  ""%file_send%""" ^
    "exit"
Because line continuation "^" is applicable to empty label (::), double colons here are commenting out all lines starting from the second to the very end,  instead of commenting out only a single line. 
I believe comment_single should be "comment_single=REM "

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