Merge from origin/emacs-26

5cb3991 Fix a typo in emacs-lisp-intro.texi
d6aa55e Avoid segfaults in replace-buffer-contents with large buffers
d22b8d1 Adjust for scaling for mode-line popup menus (Bug#31880)
3d2e3dc Change name of `seqp' argument (Bug#26411)
40e1db8 Change index of ";" to better reflect it's usage (Bug#31623)
d289e7e Fix bug of 'mouse-drag-and-drop-region' to detect edges of re...
e292c09 Fix #'fun handling inside `labels' (Bug#31792)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
index 1253e46297f..b94de80b658 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
@@ -109,15 +109,15 @@ not be evaluated later.  @xref{Input Functions}, for a description of
 @node Comments
 @section Comments
 @cindex comments
-@cindex @samp{;} in comment
-
-  A @dfn{comment} is text that is written in a program only for the sake
-of humans that read the program, and that has no effect on the meaning
-of the program.  In Lisp, a semicolon (@samp{;}) starts a comment if it
-is not within a string or character constant.  The comment continues to
-the end of line.  The Lisp reader discards comments; they do not become
-part of the Lisp objects which represent the program within the Lisp
-system.
+@cindex @samp{;} for commenting
+
+  A @dfn{comment} is text that is written in a program only for the
+sake of humans that read the program, and that has no effect on the
+meaning of the program.  In Lisp, an unescaped semicolon (@samp{;})
+starts a comment if it is not within a string or character constant.
+The comment continues to the end of line.  The Lisp reader discards
+comments; they do not become part of the Lisp objects which represent
+the program within the Lisp system.
 
   The @samp{#@@@var{count}} construct, which skips the next @var{count}
 characters, is useful for program-generated comments containing binary