Re: interactive interface to supply variables

[Michael Heerdegen]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I'm still using Emacs 22.x. In this version, the "v" specification reads 
> any variable for which user-variable-p is true:
>
> (1) the first character of its documentation is `*', or
> (2) it is customizable (its property list contains a non-nil value
>     of `standard-value' or `custom-autoload'), or
> (3) it is an alias for another user variable.
>
> Have they removed clause (1) in your version? If not, give your variable 
> a doc string beginning with "*".

AFAIK, the `*' prefix rule for user variable doc strings has been given
up.

And now (recent release of Emacs), `user-variable-p' is an obsoleted
alias for `custom-variable-p':

,----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Return non-nil if VARIABLE is a customizable variable.
| A customizable variable is either (i) a variable whose property
| list contains a non-nil `standard-value' or `custom-autoload'
| property, or (ii) an alias for another customizable variable.
`----------------------------------------------------------------------


Regards,

Michael.