# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 967032312 0
# Node ID e9c859a12e4712e8fec5217dad71e95f9744a155
# Parent  aa11fb167cec4cfb6434c6e15b3c4879df8b9f5e
Add a comment about the significance of an asterisk as the first
character of a variable's doc string.  Reported by Donald Knuth.

diff -r aa11fb167cec -r e9c859a12e47 lispref/help.texi
--- a/lispref/help.texi	Wed Aug 23 11:54:24 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/help.texi	Wed Aug 23 12:05:12 2000 +0000
@@ -241,6 +241,11 @@
 @end group
 @end smallexample
 
+The asterisk @samp{*} as the first character of a variable's doc string,
+as shown above for the @code{goal-column} variable, means that it is a
+user option; see the description of @code{defvar} in @ref{Defining
+Variables}.
+
 @defun Snarf-documentation filename
 This function is used only during Emacs initialization, just before
 the runnable Emacs is dumped.  It finds the file offsets of the