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From: dodd%mycenae.cchem.Berkeley.EDU@JADE.BERKELEY.EDU (Lawrence R. Dodd)
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Subject: comment-line-start
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Date: 2 Jan 90 01:06:36 GMT
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   This is probably not a bug but I have spent about an hour trying to
get it to work with no success.  I would like to set the string
inserted to start a new full-line comment to "C".  That is, the
default value is "c" and I want it to be capital "C".  The GNU Emacs
Manual states that this is normally set properly by Fortran mode and
one need not change it.  Well I can change it from within the editor
by typing

M-x set-variable RET column-line-start RET "C" RET

but I have been trying unsuccessfully to put it in my .emacs file.  I
managed to figure out that

(setq comment-start "C")

Will fix the Text mode comment start string to "C" but

(setq comment-line-start "C")

does not do the same for the comment line string.  What am I doing
wrong?

                            Larry
                            dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu

                            Lawrence Robert Dodd
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                            University of California at Berkeley
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