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Vim has the option to automatically continue comments when a new line is entered as described here. This currently works perfectly for // and # in .cpp and .python files respectively.
I tried to add the following line to the .vimrc for lisp
autocmd filetype lisp,clojure setlocal comments+=:;;
I also tried to set it manually in a file via :set comments=:;;. All to no avail.
I have checked that vim is compiled with the comments flag set.
Check your filetype:
:set filetype?
It should show
filetype=lisp
If it is empty, then auto-comments would not work.
Same applies to
:set formatoptions?
The should look like
formatoptions=croql
and not be empty.
