From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: defcustom and the stars. Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:10:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167930774 26617 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 17:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 18:12:51 2007 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 1H2W8v-0003lD-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:12:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2W8u-0007qQ-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2W7A-0005jE-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2W78-0005g4-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:10:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2W77-0005fl-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:10:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.190] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H2W74-0004dr-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h2so758244nfe for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:10:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lcwGy6agNGyDFds1/GeZFKoI+itCM772rN1xKdG2QbGI824vR+mjhd4DDympjfVKSaQ6VnD76EXFpg+nY/OeUY2nquiuQgTKUtJ8n4oFjiETf8tLUoHyMXV5Q22pp5Hkz2x2JdG40k130GDSl69kDEqPnRD2WzWCUvUCa0unuLE= Original-Received: by 10.82.139.17 with SMTP id m17mr1985456bud.1167930644490; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:10:44 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.82.147.2 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:10:43 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:64756 Archived-At: Not to defend modifying describe-variable right now, but this: > Yes. Here is a doc string I have, for instance. > > "**Completions* window is removed if fewer chars than this are input." is basically incorrect, in the sense that (defvar my-var nil "*Completions* window blah blah.") is wrong; it makes my-var a user variable, when it isn't intended to. Seems like a docstring payload (taking out the possible initial "*") should not start with an asterisk... /L/e/k/t/u