>>>>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.
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>>First, we don't know that for sure. Second, you wouldn't reject a user request just because it is difficult to implement, would you?
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>Well, I agree that we don't absolutely, positively, 100% sure know that this is the case. However, given the behavior of the editor, I think it's a perfectly reasonable and rational hypothesis. I do think it would be nice if someone from Microsoft (Mike Stewart, Ken Levy, Randy Brown, Calvin Hsia, John Koziol, etc.) would step in here and either confirm or deny it.
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>What we do know for sure is that VFP doesn't do real-time syntaxing and compilation. If it did, we wouldn't see some of the compile-time syntax errors that sometimes appear when we have mis-matches (parenthises, WITH/ENDWITH, etc.) Other products support it. If it did, I think that the behavior could be dealt with more easily.
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>This behavior isn't exactly new. It's been with us (and been complained about) since syntax coloring first appeared. While it's a nice feature and makes our development easier, I would think that there might be other areas of more significance that could be worked on. FWIW, this behavior with the semi-colon has been the case even before syntax coloring appeared.
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>As I mentioned in my other post, there are other instances where syntax coloring doesn't display as it should, yet no one seems to mind those as much as this one.

I personally never cared about this limitation much. Ii happened that it came to my attention before it could crawl out and bite me. :)
Since then I just never use semi-colon in comments and if I comment out the piece of code with semi-colons I always leave an empty line between the comment and the following code.