(scheme-mode-variables): Set comment-start-skip to ignore backslash-quoted

	semicolons.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el b/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el
index 6e385fd1ff6..a4393df8ee7 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el
@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@
   (make-local-variable 'comment-start)
   (setq comment-start ";")
   (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip)
-  (setq comment-start-skip ";+[ \t]*")
+  ;; Look within the line for a ; following an even number of backslashes
+  ;; after either a non-backslash or the line beginning.
+  (setq comment-start-skip "\\(\\(^\\|[^\\\\\n]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\);+[ \t]*")
   (make-local-variable 'comment-column)
   (setq comment-column 40)
   (make-local-variable 'comment-indent-function)