Variable: comment-column

comment-column is a customizable and buffer-local variable defined in newcomment.el.gz.

Documentation

Column to indent right-margin comments to.

Each mode may establish a different default value for this variable; you can set the value for a particular mode using that mode's hook. Comments might be indented to a different value in order not to go beyond comment-fill-column or in order to align them with surrounding comments.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/newcomment.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom comment-column 32
  "Column to indent right-margin comments to.
Each mode may establish a different default value for this variable; you
can set the value for a particular mode using that mode's hook.
Comments might be indented to a different value in order not to go beyond
`comment-fill-column' or in order to align them with surrounding comments."
  :type 'integer
  :local t
  :group 'comment)