Re: Require 'newcomment'?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.