From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: comment-region and empty lines Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:23:25 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157729117 28729 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2006 15:25:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 08 17:25:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLiDv-0006zC-AD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:24:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLiDu-0003TZ-GL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLiDj-0003Ol-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLiDi-0003KL-Ab for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLiDi-0003K7-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GLiEK-0004ib-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GLiDa-0006rX-Il for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:24:34 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:24:34 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:24:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37234 Archived-At: Tim Robishaw wrote: > I'm trying to use comment-region to turn a few paragraphs into > comments. However, after marking the region and applying > comment-region, the blank lines are NOT commented. I'd like to use > the "plain" comment-style I tried all the others and while some of > them produce commented blank lines [aligned/box/box-multi do, > plain/indent/multi-line/extra-line do not], these also produce comment > characters at the end of each line, which I don't want. Any help > would be hugely appreciated! Best -Tim. ,----[ C-h v comment-empty-lines RET ] | comment-empty-lines is a variable defined in `newcomment.el'. | Its value is nil | | Documentation: | If nil, `comment-region' does not comment out empty lines. | If t, it always comments out empty lines. | if `eol' it only comments out empty lines if comments are | terminated by the end of line (i.e. `comment-end' is empty). | | You can customize this variable. | | [back] `---- -- Kevin