Variable: comment-inline-offset

comment-inline-offset is a customizable variable defined in newcomment.el.gz.

Value

1

Documentation

Inline comments have to be preceded by at least this many spaces.

This is useful when style-conventions require a certain minimal offset. Python's PEP8 for example recommends two spaces, so you could do:

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
   (lambda () (setq-local comment-inline-offset 2)))

See comment-padding for whole-line comments.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 24.3.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/newcomment.el.gz
(defcustom comment-inline-offset 1
  "Inline comments have to be preceded by at least this many spaces.
This is useful when style-conventions require a certain minimal offset.
Python's PEP8 for example recommends two spaces, so you could do:

\(add-hook \\='python-mode-hook
   (lambda () (setq-local comment-inline-offset 2)))

See `comment-padding' for whole-line comments."
  :version "24.3"
  :type 'integer
  :group 'comment)