Re: How to change 'comment-region' behaviour globally?

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Is there a way to change the behaviour of 'comment-region'
>> globally such that, even when applied one line after another,
>> the 'comment-start' characters are
>> never indented, but always placed at the beginning of line?
>> 
>> With globally I mean that this works independent from the 
>> comment-style definitions of the major-mode, and overrides
>> the major-mode settings if they are different. 
>
> Customizing `comment-style' to `plain' doesn't help?
>
> I guess it won't help if a given major mode declares that variable to be
> buffer-local and sets its own value for it.  But it's not playing nice if the
> major mode does that, IMO.  `comment-styles' is a user option.

But I could check for a buffer-local value of 'comment-style', read and
store it, set it temporarilly to 'plain', and restore the old value when
I'm done. 

Thanks for the tip - that helped. 

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cheers,
Thorsten