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Subject: What version of Emacs still requires '*' in defcustom docs?
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:29:03 -0500
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The practice of giving the docs of defcustoms a leading '*' doesn't seem
to want to die out. For those of you doing this, what version of Emacs
are you trying to support that requires this?

Eg GNU Emacs has not needed this since at least 21.1 (see user-variable-p).