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Re: emacs/lisp ChangeLog
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: emacs/lisp ChangeLog |
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Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:23:24 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Leo <address@hidden> writes:
> BTW, I am curious about the leading *, what does it do? Why so many old
> packages are using it?
It was used to mark a variable as a user option. This is obsolete;
nowadays people should just use defcustom.