; * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (tags-verify-table): Improve comment (bug#75946).

(cherry picked from commit 20e3959dc37685334579394b320ab93f751243fb)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
index f025b6494028f48ecd88b505bf43d1f6c2e774b5..f3b5bdb4c8c7e88c7cde9bb8e796a99f52f8c73f 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
@@ -445,8 +445,9 @@ Returns non-nil if it is a valid table."
        (set-buffer (get-file-buffer file))
         (or verify-tags-table-function (tags-table-mode))
        (unless (or (verify-visited-file-modtime (current-buffer))
-                    ;; Avoid an infinte loop of questions about
-                    ;; re-reading content if file was removed.
+                    ;; 'verify-visited-file-modtime' return non-nil if
+                    ;; the tags table file was meanwhile deleted.  Avoid
+                    ;; asking the question below again if so.
                     (not (file-exists-p file))
                    ;; Decide whether to revert the file.
                    ;; revert-without-query can say to revert