Re: commands to remove commented lines from grep output

[Richard Stallman]

    > It seems to me that a new grep option might be a better approach.

    Do you mean, for example, automatically tweaking the regexp supplied to
    grep, so that commented lines are not included?

I meant a new grep command line option to check for comments.
But maybe your approach is better, as long as it is extended
to handle multi-line comment syntaxes.