auto-fill in lisp strings messed up by semicolon

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From: boris
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 20:05

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In GNU Emacs 19.25.94.2 (sparc-sun-sunos4shr, X toolkit) of Mon Aug 22 1994 on moose.cs.rochester.edu

Apparently calculate-lisp-indent thinks that ; starts a comment even if
you are inside a string constant.  Test case:

emacs -q
M-x auto-fill-mode
Type into *scratch* buffer:

(defun foo ()
  "This is only a test documentation string; were it a real documentation string it would be more useful...

Auto-fill turns this into: 

(defun foo ()
  "This is only a test documentation string; were it a real documentation
					   ; string it would be more useful...

To my mind, this makes auto-fill-mode more frustrating than it is worth in
lisp-mode.

Bng

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