From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What version of Emacs still requires '*' in defcustom docs?
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:16:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr7sxsp7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a4nuxknrk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:29:03 -0500")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> 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).
FWIW, I intend to convert user-variable-p into an alias for
custom-variable-p after the release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-12 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-11 22:29 What version of Emacs still requires '*' in defcustom docs? Glenn Morris
2012-02-11 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-11 22:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-11 23:33 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-12 10:16 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-02-12 15:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-12 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-12 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-12 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-13 6:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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