<p>With the default settings, <code>;</code> shouldn't be highlighted as a comment (we even <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/1.28.0/data/filedefs/filetypes.conf#L24">tell it to use <code>#</code> as the comment start</a>). I guess the syntax highlighter must have it hard-coded inside to always support Windows-style <code>;</code> comments.</p>

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