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seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> I figured out how to get Emacs from CVS but when I do M-x help and
> type in comment-empty-lines it says there is no such thing?!?!?!

It's only defined after the comment code is loaded, e.g. after the
first time you do `M-;'.  Just put 

      (setq comment-empty-lines t)

in you ~/.emacs and it should work fine.