Variable: perl-tab-to-comment

perl-tab-to-comment is a customizable variable defined in perl-mode.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

Non-nil means TAB moves to eol or makes a comment in some cases.

For lines which don't need indenting, TAB either indents an existing comment, moves to end-of-line, or if at end-of-line already, create a new comment.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el.gz
;; I changed the default to nil for consistency with general Emacs
;; conventions -- rms.
(defcustom perl-tab-to-comment nil
  "Non-nil means TAB moves to eol or makes a comment in some cases.
For lines which don't need indenting, TAB either indents an
existing comment, moves to end-of-line, or if at end-of-line already,
create a new comment."
  :type 'boolean)