1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/nroff-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/nroff-mode.el
index ad0485fbb30..086f5156f28 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/nroff-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/nroff-mode.el
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@
     ;; ' used otherwise).
     (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"  2" st)
     ;; Comments are delimited by \" and newline.
+    ;; And in groff also \# to newline.
+    (modify-syntax-entry ?# ".  2"  st)
     (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "\\  1" st)
     (modify-syntax-entry ?\n ">" st)
     st)
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@
          (mapconcat 'identity
                     '("[f*n]*\\[.+?]" ; some groff extensions
                       "(.."           ; two chars after (
-                      "[^(\"]"        ; single char escape
+                      "[^(\"#]"       ; single char escape
                       ) "\\|")
          "\\)")
    )
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ closing requests for requests that are used in matched pairs."
        (concat "[.']\\|" paragraph-separate))
   ;; comment syntax added by mit-erl!gildea 18 Apr 86
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start) "\\\" ")
-  (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip) "\\\\\"[ \t]*")
+  (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip) "\\\\[\"#][ \t]*")
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-column) 24)
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-indent-function) 'nroff-comment-indent)
   (set (make-local-variable 'imenu-generic-expression) nroff-imenu-expression))