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From: gildea@BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: comment-start should always be a string
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Date: 4 Jan 89 23:12:42 GMT
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Currently, comment-start is "*String to insert to start a new comment,
or nil if no comment syntax defined."  This is a pain for simple
routines that want to insert some text into a buffer, surrounded by
comment delimiters.  It would be much more convenient if comment-start
were always a string ("" if no comment syntax) and the test for
whether there is a comment syntax be whether or not comment-start-skip
is non-nil.

 < Stephen