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24.0.92; `C-h v' displays `*' indicating user option

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Message #18 received at 10475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 10475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#10475: 24.0.92; `C-h v' displays `*' indicating user option
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:50:47 -0700 (PDT)

If it wasn't clear, consider a library that is perfectly
usable in Emacs 25 but also in older Emacs versions that
require the `*'.  That library _should_ continue to use
the `*'.  Emacs 25 and later should tolerate it: remove
it from the output, knowing that older code will have it.

It is narrow-minded to think that just because the latest
distributed Emacs code no longer needs something no other
Emacs code needs it.

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