Re: What version of Emacs still requires '*' in defcustom docs?

[Chong Yidong]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> The practice of giving the docs of defcustoms a leading '*' doesn't
> seem to want to die out. For those of you doing this, what version of
> Emacs are you trying to support that requires this?
>
> Eg GNU Emacs has not needed this since at least 21.1 (see
> user-variable-p).

FWIW, I intend to convert user-variable-p into an alias for
custom-variable-p after the release.