GNU bug report logs - #31623
27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 14:36:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 31623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 31623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment"
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 19:32:23 -0400

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> From the text of index entry "; in comment" I would expect a node that
> talks about the use of `;' inside a comment.  I cannot imagine what
> other sense someone might make of this index-entry text.
>
> But the target of the index entry, node `Comments', does not seem to
> say anything about a `;' character inside a comment.

As far as I can tell, it refers to this sentence:

      In Lisp, a semicolon (`;') starts a comment if it is not
    within a string or character constant.

So, if it is not "within a string or character constant" then the
semicolon is in a comment.
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