From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs/lisp ChangeLog Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hc1tnx7n.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237231078 14348 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2009 19:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Leo , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 16 20:19:15 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjIL9-00018X-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:19:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjIJm-0006Of-Kn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjIJX-0006Jb-TS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjIJU-0006He-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41175 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjIJT-0006HS-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:26161 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjIJT-0008WS-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:27 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtsEANxCvklFxIZP/2dsb2JhbACBTtNxg38GhEk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,374,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="35275471" Original-Received: from 69-196-134-79.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.134.79]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 16 Mar 2009 15:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CB359806F; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87hc1tnx7n.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:23:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109660 Archived-At: >> It seems many files still have leading * in their defcustoms. For >> example, have a peek at the nxml directory. No big deal. They're pretty harmless anyway. >> BTW, I am curious about the leading *, what does it do? Why so many old >> packages are using it? > It was used to mark a variable as a user option. More specifically it was used to tell M-x set-variable that it could operate on it. > This is obsolete; nowadays people should just use defcustom. Nowadays, set-variable automatically considers all defcustom'd variables as being acceptable, so the * is redundant for them. Stefan