-else. A comment line begins with a hash sign (`#'). A configuration
-directive is a line with at least one token, each token being a series
-of non-whitespace characters or quoted whitespace characters. Quoting
-can be done either by surrounding the characters to be quoted with
-double quotation marks, or by preceding a single character to be
-quoted with a backslash. The first token is considered the directive
-to be evaluated, and the rest being arguments to the directive. Each
-of the possible configuration directives are described in their own
-sections.
+else. A comment line begins with a hash sign (`#'), optionally
+preceded by whitespace. A configuration directive is a line with at
+least one token, each token being a series of non-whitespace
+characters or quoted whitespace characters. Quoting can be done either
+by surrounding the characters to be quoted with double quotation
+marks, or by preceding a single character to be quoted with a
+backslash. The first token is considered the directive to be
+evaluated, and the rest being arguments to the directive. Each of the
+possible configuration directives are described in their own sections.