From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 13:44:47 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ; * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (tags-verify-table): Improve comment (bug#75946).
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; * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (tags-verify-table): Improve comment (bug#75946).

(cherry picked from commit 20e3959dc37685334579394b320ab93f751243fb)
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diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
index f025b649402..f3b5bdb4c8c 100644
--- 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