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From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Date: 08 Apr 1997 18:35:25 +0200
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:14:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> Yes.  Some of those *-less variables are changed at your own
> peril.  (Read as, you better know what you're doing.)  And there
> is less guarantee that those variables will persist from version
> to version.

According to `Tips for Documentation Strings' in the elisp manual,
this isn't what `*' means.  I'm not sure what it means given
customize, variables declared with defcustom are almost per definition ==============================
both intended to be edited interactively (even if they are large)
by the user.

   * A variable's documentation string should start with `*' if the
     variable is one that users would often want to set interactively.
     If the value is a long list, or a function, or if the variable
     would be set only in init files, then don't start the
     documentation string with `*'.  *Note Defining Variables::.

