Variable: comment-start

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

Documentation

String to insert to start a new comment, or nil if no comment syntax.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/newcomment.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defvar comment-start nil
  "String to insert to start a new comment, or nil if no comment syntax.")