+.IP "\fB\-kis\fR, \fB\-\-keep\-interior\-semicolons\fR" 4
+.IX Item "-kis, --keep-interior-semicolons"
+Use the \fB\-kis\fR flag to prevent breaking at a semicolon if
+there was no break there in the input file. Normally
+perltidy places a newline after each semicolon which
+terminates a statement unless several statements are
+contained within a one-line brace block. To illustrate,
+consider the following input lines:
+.Sp
+.Vb 2
+\& dbmclose(%verb_delim); undef %verb_delim;
+\& dbmclose(%expanded); undef %expanded;
+.Ve
+.Sp
+The default is to break after each statement, giving
+.Sp
+.Vb 4
+\& dbmclose(%verb_delim);
+\& undef %verb_delim;
+\& dbmclose(%expanded);
+\& undef %expanded;
+.Ve
+.Sp
+With \fBperltidy \-kis\fR the multiple statements are retained:
+.Sp
+.Vb 2
+\& dbmclose(%verb_delim); undef %verb_delim;
+\& dbmclose(%expanded); undef %expanded;
+.Ve
+.Sp
+The statements are still subject to the specified value
+of \fBmaximum-line-length\fR and will be broken if this
+maximum is exceeed.