8 PHP Comments

The usual commands for inserting, managing and editing source code comments in Emacs¹ and Emacs's C mode² are supported in PHP mode. The following noteworthy commands are useful for working with PHP or are extensions expressly provided by PHP mode.

M-;

Insert comment at point (comment-dwim). If comment already exist, indent comment (comment-indent).

M-j

Insert a newline in a comment on the next line with the comment starting at the same column as the current line (c-indent-new-comment-line).

C-x ;

Set the current column as the column to start comments from in the buffer (comment-set-column). This affects the variable comment-column.

C-c C-c

Comment out the current region (comment-region). If region is already commented, the region is uncommented.

M-- C-x ;

C-u M-;

Kill the comment on the current line (comment-kill called by comment-set-column or comment-dwim).

C-u n M-;

Kill the next n comments (comment-dwim).

M-x comment-box

Surround region with comment characters.