Re: How to change 'comment-region' behaviour globally?

[Stefan Monnier]

> if I want to temporarilly set it to another value in a program, do I
> have to check first if its a global value or a buffer-local value that
> is set for the buffer, or is this immaterial, i.e. whenever I call setq
> on 'comment-style', it will apply to the version that is active in the
> buffer?

You can just do

  (let ((comment-style 'plain))
    (comment-region ...))


-- Stefan