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changeset 31130:e9c859a12e47
Add a comment about the significance of an asterisk as the first
character of a variable's doc string. Reported by Donald Knuth.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:05:12 +0000 |
| parents | aa11fb167cec |
| children | fe7ff8fb99dc |
| files | lispref/help.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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