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Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken?
From: |
Nathanael Schweers |
Subject: |
Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken? |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:54:25 +0200 |
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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