RE: Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken?

[Drew Adams]

> 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?

Sure sounds like a bug to me.