defcustom and the stars.

[Michaël Cadilhac]

Since I started Elisp programming, I've always wondered why there is
an opposition between the following lines of the manual:

 -- Macro: defcustom option standard doc [keyword value]...
     [...]There is no need to start [the docstring] with a `*'

and these lines of shell:

  mistral% cd ~/src/emacs/lisp
  mistral% echo; cat grep.awk; echo
  
  BEGIN { grepped=0 }
  /^\(defcustom/ { grepped=1 ; next }
  /^ *"[*]/ { if (grepped==1) { print (FILENAME, ":", NR) } }
  { grepped=0 }
  
  mistral% { for f (**/*.el) awk -f grep.awk $f } | wc -l
  3011
  
(this is 3011 matches of bad-style according to the doc)

Is there any reason ? I see patches like
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/38098
going to the trunk, so I don't know.

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