On 1/3/07, Michaël Cadilhac <michael@cadilhac.name> wrote:

> Strange thing: Guybrush T. (from Caraibe) only needed a pearly-white
> bra, a bone, a spit and a toupee. And needles, of course.

Same goals, different tactics :)

> Okey, so « slowly » means « when you modify some defcustom, don't
> forget to do that ».

I think that's the idea, yeah.

> So let's consider hiding this star in C-h v, like I proposed earlier,
> nop ?

That's easy enough, see the attached patch (but I have no opinion on
whether that's desirable right now or not).

                    /L/e/k/t/u

Index: lisp/help-fns.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/help-fns.el,v
retrieving revision 1.94
diff -u -2 -r1.94 help-fns.el
--- lisp/help-fns.el	17 Dec 2006 22:14:11 -0000	1.94
+++ lisp/help-fns.el	3 Jan 2007 13:06:01 -0000
@@ -593,5 +593,7 @@
 			 (format "`%s'.\n" safe-var))))
 	      (princ "\nDocumentation:\n")
-              (princ (or doc "Not documented as a variable.")))
+	      (if doc
+		  (princ (replace-regexp-in-string "^\*" "" doc))
+		(princ "Not documented as a variable.")))
 	    ;; Make a link to customize if this variable can be customized.
 	    (if (custom-variable-p variable)