# HG changeset patch
# User Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
# Date 1018306707 0
# Node ID 8a30d8f66e1ae5a074bc800787199b823ffef656
# Parent  f2981a508fca8f61c36c8d15069fa64d767b2492
(comment-column): Docstring improvement.

diff -r f2981a508fca -r 8a30d8f66e1a lisp/newcomment.el
--- a/lisp/newcomment.el	Mon Apr 08 22:57:43 2002 +0000
+++ b/lisp/newcomment.el	Mon Apr 08 22:58:27 2002 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ;; 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.
 
@@ -89,9 +89,10 @@
 ;;;###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)