Comments in emacs

[Muthiah Annamalai]

Peter A. Gustafson wrote:
> 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
>   
I think emacs expects you to use '##' or '%%' as comment in starting of 
a line.
Also '#' or '%' precedes a comment at the end of a line.

-Muthu