“rem” comment in .bat file causes error “25 was unexpected at this time”

Question

Isn\'t this weird? Do .bat rem commands have some kind of escape code?

file.bat:

rem https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/bugs/4084/?limit=25

Answer 1

Oh, that's weird. Rem is like a regular command that answers to /? for help, even if the /? is buried somewhere in another string. I'm told that putting the address in doublequotes fixes it.

C:\Users\admin>rem /?
Records comments (remarks) in a batch file or CONFIG.SYS.

REM [comment]

Or this whole string without the 25 gives the same result:

rem https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/bugs/4084/?limit=

Records comments (remarks) in a batch file or CONFIG.SYS.

REM [comment]