Variable: comment-start-skip

comment-start-skip is a variable defined in newcomment.el.gz.

Documentation

Regexp to match the start of a comment plus everything up to its body.

If there are any \(...\) pairs and comment-use-syntax is nil, the comment delimiter text is held to begin at the place matched by the close of the first pair.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 16.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/newcomment.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defvar comment-start-skip nil
  "Regexp to match the start of a comment plus everything up to its body.
If there are any \\(...\\) pairs and `comment-use-syntax' is nil,
the comment delimiter text is held to begin at the place matched
by the close of the first pair.")