Variable: comment-padding

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

Value

" "

Documentation

Padding string that comment-region puts between comment chars and text.

Can also be an integer which will be automatically turned into a string of the corresponding number of spaces.

Extra spacing between the comment characters and the comment text makes the comment easier to read. Default is 1. nil means 0.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.3.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/newcomment.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom comment-padding " "
  "Padding string that `comment-region' puts between comment chars and text.
Can also be an integer which will be automatically turned into a string
of the corresponding number of spaces.

Extra spacing between the comment characters and the comment text
makes the comment easier to read.  Default is 1.  nil means 0."
  :type '(choice string integer (const nil))
  :group 'comment)