Subject: bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:11:46 -0400

waterloo wrote:

> --text follows this line--
> In section 8.5.1 in the manual `Introduction to Emacs Lisp'.  I can
> not understant what is `readily settable variable' in second
> paragraph.

Does the following make it clearer?

   When you specified a variable using the `defvar' special form, you
   could distinguish a variable that a user might want to change from
   others by typing an asterisk,...

It should be read in the context of the previous paragraph.