This fixes many builtin comment-related functions (newcomment.el) that depend on this variable.
This also fixes test test-font-lock-comments on Emacs 28:
In Emacs 28, comment-start-skip is assigned a default value based on comment-start, which results in comment delimiters (//) being fontified with font-lock-comment-delimiter-face.
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This fixes many builtin comment-related functions (
newcomment.el
) that depend on this variable.This also fixes test
test-font-lock-comments
on Emacs 28: In Emacs 28,comment-start-skip
is assigned a default value based oncomment-start
, which results in comment delimiters (//) being fontified withfont-lock-comment-delimiter-face
.