diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b23de9d..a6a85ed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@
 # arch-tag: automatic-ChangeLog--mwolson@gnu.org--2005/muse--main--1.0
 #
 
+2005-09-15 03:52:01 GMT	Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>	patch-232
+
+    Summary:
+      muse-mode: Set comment syntax.
+    Revision:
+      muse--main--1.0--patch-232
+
+    * lisp/muse-mode.el (muse-mode): Declare comment syntax to be 
+      `^; comment text$'.  Thanks to Jesse Alama for the suggestion.
+
+    modified files:
+     ChangeLog lisp/muse-mode.el
+
+
 2005-09-13 06:30:18 GMT	Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>	patch-231
 
     Summary:
diff --git a/lisp/muse-mode.el b/lisp/muse-mode.el
index 5fd7871..40ad50b 100644
--- a/lisp/muse-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/muse-mode.el
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ so only enable this if you don't use either of these."
   (set (make-local-variable 'paragraph-start)
        (concat paragraph-start "\\|\\s-+\\(-\\|[0-9]+\\.\\)\\s-+"
                "\\|\\[[0-9]+\\]\\s-*"))
+  ;; Comment syntax is `; comment'
+  (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start)
+       "; ")
   (when (featurep 'pcomplete)
     ;; If pcomplete is available, set it up
     (set (make-local-variable 'pcomplete-default-completion-function)