indent-for-comment

Indent and insert a comment, or search for one.

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This command creates a comment on the current line, using the commenting style of the current language mode. The comment begins at the column specified by the comment-column variable (by default 40). (However, if the comment is the first thing on the line and indent-comment-as-code is nonzero, it indents to the column specified by the buffer's language-specific indentation function.) If the line already has a comment, this command reindents the comment to the comment column.

With a numeric argument, this command doesn't insert a comment, but instead searches for one. With a negative numeric argument, it searches backwards for a comment.

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