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Tim Robishaw wrote:

> 
> Hi there,
> 
> 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.


What happens with `comment-dwim' - M-;

?

Andreas