Subject: Re: bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:46:22 -0500

jari wrote:

> Please document this in
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables
>
> as semicolon seems to be a special case.

comment-start is a string, so trying to set it to ; rather than ";" is
simply a user-error.

I don't think "how to set a variable to a literal semicolon" is worth
documenting, since it's not something that you need to do.