Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken?

[Nathanael Schweers]

I wanted to include a reference to a global (dynamic) variable in one of
my docstrings.  According to the info page “(elisp) Documentation Tips”
one merely has to reference the variable in question between the
quotation marks ‘ and ’.

As far as I can tell so far, this works, as long as the variable does
not start with an asterisk.  I.e. ‘varname’ works, so does ‘varname*’,
yet not ‘*varname’.  Hence, ‘*varname*’ also does not work.

I’d like to adhere to the Common Lisp convention of naming special
variables in my elisp code, yet if I do so, I cannot seem to reference
them in docstrings.

Is this behaviour a bug?

Best Regards,
Nathanael Schweers
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