From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Require 'newcomment'? Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:52:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83li8l7au9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bo9hijvg.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365929576 2674 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2013 08:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:52:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 14 10:52:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1URIgC-00076l-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:52:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URIgC-0005ON-GW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:52:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50991) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URIg1-0005O7-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URIfz-0002Pi-H1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:53779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URIfz-0002PQ-8Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ML800J00LPVNC00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:52:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ML800IEJLZSOXH0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:52:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87bo9hijvg.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90150 Archived-At: > From: Thorsten Jolitz > 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.