;; Author: code extracted from Emacs-20's simple.el
;; Maintainer: Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
;; Keywords: comment uncomment
-;; Revision: $Id: newcomment.el,v 1.44 2002/01/13 09:59:39 pj Exp $
+;; Revision: $Id: newcomment.el,v 1.45 2002/03/04 01:10:55 monnier Exp $
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;;;###autoload
(defcustom comment-column 32
"*Column to indent right-margin comments to.
-Setting this variable automatically makes it local to the current buffer.
Each mode establishes a different default value for this variable; you
-can set the value for a particular mode using that mode's hook."
+can set the value for a particular mode using that mode's hook.
+Comments might be indented to a value smaller than this in order
+not to go beyond `fill-column'."
:type 'integer)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'comment-column)