On Tue 31 Jan 2023 at 15:03:30 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 01:42:10PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > The question then is why emacs uses ; as a comment character. > > Because of LISP. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Comments.html I had assumed people write their emails in text-mode. Cheers, David.