From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Remove * characters from the front of variable docstrings Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:19 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335463713 16740 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2012 18:08:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:08:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 20:08:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SNT7D-0005DL-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNT7D-0001sR-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNT79-0001rm-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNT78-0004Nq-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:45533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNT78-0004Nl-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNT75-0001bL-LH; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:19 -0400 X-Spook: counter terrorism industrial espionage Armani Bin Laden X-Ran: #^JH#w,>3k|R7~y1V!K>|1OwtBN!yzXq{1;tcAUv}=/2>}:'b]e7Y^qXn=3'[Ht-dV=uE& X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:150050 Archived-At: I was glad to see the "*" chars finally disappearing in trunk r107813. However, hasn't some information been lost in the process? For example, in emacs-24 there is: (defvar texinfo-column-for-description 32 "*Column at which descriptions start in a Texinfo menu.") So, this is something I might want to change. In trunk, it has no *, so there's no indication it is something I might want to change. Shouldn't it (and other defvars with *s) have been converted to defcustoms?