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@@ -211,6 +211,10 @@ This is obsolete because you might as well use \\[newline-and-indent]."
;;;###autoload
(defun comment-normalize-vars (&optional noerror)
+ "Check and setup the variables needed by other commenting functions.
+Functions autoloaded from newcomment.el, being entry points, should call
+this function before any other, so the rest of the code can assume that
+the variables are properly set."
(if (not comment-start)
(unless noerror
(set (make-local-variable 'comment-start)