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Subject: Re: How make comment-region NOT ignore blank lines but comment out
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seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote...
>
>> The option `comment-empty-lines' only exists in the development
>> version of Emacs.
>
> Thanks.  Are you saying that before the new bleeding edge version of Emacs
> people never were able to comment empty lines???

Yes, as far as I know.

> I have ver. 21.2 and 21.3 from Emacs CVS server about a month ago.

Setting `comment-empty-lines' to t works for me with a current version
from CVS.