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Q: how do I get yasnippet to insert the comment sign, when I press return to start new line?

For example, my snippet looks like this

         ;; $1 .
         ;; / END 
         $2

When the cursor is on the $1, and I'm typing some text, I would like to press return. It will start a new line, but the ;; is missing on the new line.

I found nothing on this specific issue. I could also use elisp forms to create a new mapping on the new line, like (concat comment-start), but it's not clear to me how to expand them appropriately.

See the comment below.

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  • Are you talking about after expanding the snippet, or while writing the snippet? Does hitting M-j (indent-new-comment-line) give you behavior that you want?
    – nanny
    May 21, 2015 at 13:18
  • Nanny, your comment is appreciated.. but no, when I'm calling (indent-new-comment-line) inside the snippet, it will begin a new line, but without comment tag.
    – ReneFroger
    May 21, 2015 at 13:27

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Before I created a function to solve this, I looked into the Lisp documentation about comment strings and Yasnippet bindings. What about this one: 

(defun foo-bar ()
  (interactive)
  (newline)
  (insert (concat comment-start) " ")
  )

(eval-after-load 'yasnippet
  '(progn
     (define-key yas-keymap (kbd "<return>") 'foo-bar)))
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  • I prefer double comment tag ;; instead ;, I got only one. But your solution works anyway.
    – ReneFroger
    May 21, 2015 at 18:51

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