From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: What version of Emacs still requires '*' in defcustom docs? Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:49:31 -0800 Message-ID: <9E53F747858A4AD2AC3569FB7E080FC7@us.oracle.com> References: <1a4nuxknrk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329000589 4869 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2012 22:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:49:49 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Glenn Morris'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 11 23:49:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwLlK-00033n-VB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:49:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwLlK-0000Mh-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45750) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwLlH-0000Mc-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwLlG-0004Oa-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:49855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwLlG-0004OW-IR; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:49:42 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q1BMnd6r013713; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:49:41 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1BMncG0013786 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:49:39 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt113.oracle.com (abhmt113.oracle.com [141.146.116.65]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q1BMncfl025748; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:49:38 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.51.171) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:49:38 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <1a4nuxknrk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Thread-Index: AczpDJN5jklWv/AtRRGF23OFwr4ygAAAoZ1g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4F36F085.001C,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148484 Archived-At: > 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). Speaking for myself, Emacs 20 (to support, e.g., `set-variable').