;;; newcomment.el --- (un)comment regions of buffers -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
-;; Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: code extracted from Emacs-20's simple.el
;; Maintainer: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
"Find a comment start between point and LIMIT.
Moves point to inside the comment and returns the position of the
comment-starter. If no comment is found, moves point to LIMIT
-and raises an error or returns nil if NOERROR is non-nil."
+and raises an error or returns nil if NOERROR is non-nil.
+
+Ensure that `comment-normalize-vars' has been called before you use this."
(if (not comment-use-syntax)
(if (re-search-forward comment-start-skip limit noerror)
(or (match-end 1) (match-beginning 0))
"Find a comment start between LIMIT and point.
Moves point to inside the comment and returns the position of the
comment-starter. If no comment is found, moves point to LIMIT
-and raises an error or returns nil if NOERROR is non-nil."
+and raises an error or returns nil if NOERROR is non-nil.
+
+Ensure that `comment-normalize-vars' has been called before you use this."
;; FIXME: If a comment-start appears inside a comment, we may erroneously
;; stop there. This can be rather bad in general, but since
;; comment-search-backward is only used to find the comment-column (in
(defun comment-box (beg end &optional arg)
"Comment out the BEG .. END region, putting it inside a box.
The numeric prefix ARG specifies how many characters to add to begin- and
-end- comment markers additionally to what `comment-add' already specifies."
+end- comment markers additionally to what variable `comment-add' already
+specifies."
(interactive "*r\np")
(comment-normalize-vars)
(let ((comment-style (if (cadr (assoc comment-style comment-styles))