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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making c-mode comment-start return // rather than /*
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:22:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh6xzb7h6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
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Heime [2022-12-13 15:50:57] wrote:
> How can I make comment-start return // rather than /* for c-mode ?

`comment-start` says what string should be inserted to comment
something out.  I suspect you want to use `commend-start-skip` instead,
which is a regular expression matching the beginning of a comment.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13 16:22 UTC|newest]

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2022-12-13 15:50 Making c-mode comment-start return // rather than /* Heime
2022-12-13 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]

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