Comments in emacs

[Peter A. Gustafson]

On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:12:28 pm Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> I am editing m files in emacs, in the Octave mode. Whenever
> After I start a comment line with a %, the moment I insert
> a blank space emacs insists on positioning the % at col 32!
> This is extremely annoying behaviour and a strong disincentive
> to writing comments. Would anyone know how to make that stop?
> I had a look at octave-mod.el but nothing struck me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- O.L.
>

Well... I don't know why it was chosen to do it that way, but I use the double 
comment %% instead which positions itself more appropriately.  Give it a try.

Pete