From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 10475@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10475: 24.0.92; `C-h v' displays `*' indicating user option
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:01:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvoelz66.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18E370DBB9F14AD7AAE6181C1CB116B7@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:08:51 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> (defcustom foo nil
> "*A foobar function or nil."
> :type '(choice (const :tag "None" nil) function)
> :group 'convenience)
>
> Then `C-h v foo'. The `*' indicating that this is a user variable
> (e.g. usable by `set-variable') is printed as if it were part of the
> doc. It should be removed.
I don't think so. Instead we should remove all the superfluous "*"s in
the source code. I'll submit a bug report.
> In addition, `user-variable-p' is the test used for functions such as
> `set-variable', and it`user-variable-p' recognizes the `*' as defining a
> user variable. This is correct behavior. The only problem is that
> `describe-variable' should not treat this `*' as if it were part of the
> doc text.
It no longer does that. It's now an alias for custom-variable-p.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 22:08 bug#10475: 24.0.92; `C-h v' displays `*' indicating user option Drew Adams
2016-04-28 12:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-28 14:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 16:50 ` Drew Adams
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