>>I disagree with you. The meaning of ';' shouldn't change for comment lines but the code coloring should be fixed to show all comment lines in proper color.
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>Sergey,
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>While I agree with you that it would be nice, I think it would be terribly difficult to implement. The problem is that the editor simply works one line or even keystroke at a time and therefore is unaware of the semi-colon at the end of a previous line.

If how it is coded today (the editor) doesn't let it do the full job needed, then the obvious thing to do is to change the editor so it does.
If that means making it (also) look at an entire 'command' line, then so be it.