Re: Autoloading comment-forward

[Stefan Monnier]

>> For instance, the code of comment-forward could call a new
>> preloaded function equivalent to `comment-normalize-vars',
>> and `comment-normalize-vars' itself could call that new function
>> to do the work.  This way, calls to `comment-normalize-vars'
>> will still be a good way to cause newcomment.el to get loaded,
>> and everything that works now will continue to work.

>     If someone else wants to do that, I can't prevent it, but spreading
>     the code like this just in the hope to avoid a few KB in the default
>     build (most people will load newcomment.el sooner or later since it's
>     loaded as soon as you hit M-; or use auto-fill-mode or ...), is just
>     a waste of time IMNSHO.

> Why does auto-fill-mode load newcomment when used in Text mode?

Not sure.  Maybe it doesn't in this case.


        Stefan