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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Require 'newcomment'?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:59:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738utij2t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83li8l7au9.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:42:11 +0200
>> 
>> I use some variables defined in 'newcomment.el' in Emacs Lisp libraries,
>> and did not have problems with this on my machine, but got some feedback
>> that it might be necessary to require newcomment before using it. 
>> 
>> Now I'm a bit confused: is it indeed necessary, or can one assume that
>> these core libraries are loaded anyway?
>
> newcomment is preloaded starting with Emacs 24.3.  With older
> versions, you need to load it explicitly.  So it is better to require
> it, if you want your variables to work with older versions.

Explains the confusion - thanks!

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-14  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-14  8:42 Require 'newcomment'? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-14  8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-14  8:59   ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2013-04-14 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier

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