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Subject: Re: User Customizable Variables (was Re: minibuf.el)
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Date: 08 Apr 1997 20:16:43 +0200
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"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:

> Hmm, maybe we really need to work out a consistent model of defconst,
> defvar, defvar-with-*.

defvar		Internal variable, don't touch it don't even look at it.
defcustom	User option.
defconst	Constant.  You may look at this, but don't change it.

"*" used to mean "make sense to set with `set-variable'". 

