8.1. Comments

All the modes described in this chapter share a feature with the programming language modes such as Java mode and Lisp mode, which we discuss in Chapter 9. All these modes understand comments and use a single command, M-; (for indent-for-comment) to insert the appropriate comment syntax. Table 8-1 lists the comment syntax for the tools in this chapter.

Table 8-1. Comments in markup modes

If you type M-; in:	Emacs inserts:
HTML mode	<!-- -->
HTML helper mode	<!-- -->
SGML mode	<!-- -->
nxml mode	<!-- -->
psgml mode	<!-- -->
LaTeX mode	%% (on blank lines)
	% (on lines with content)