Remove defining user variables via * in docstring.

* lisp/apropos.el (apropos-variable):
* lisp/files-x.el (read-file-local-variable):
* lisp/simple.el (set-variable):
* lisp/woman.el (woman-mini-help):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el (side-effect-free-fns): Callers changed.

* lisp/custom.el (custom-variable-p): Return nil for non-symbol
arguments instead of signaling an error.
(user-variable-p): Obsolete alias for custom-variable-p.

* lisp/erc/erc.el (erc-cmd-SET): Call custom-variable-p instead of
user-variable-p.

* src/callint.c (Finteractive, Fcall_interactively):
* src/minibuf.c (Fread_variable): Callers changed.

* src/eval.c (Fuser_variable_p, user_variable_p_eh)
(lisp_indirect_variable): Functions deleted.
(Fdefvar): Caller changed.

* doc/lispref/commands.texi (Interactive Codes):
* doc/lispref/help.texi (Accessing Documentation):
* doc/lispref/minibuf.texi (High-Level Completion): Callers changed.

* doc/lispref/customize.texi (Variable Definitions): Remove user-variable-p.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/erc/ChangeLog b/lisp/erc/ChangeLog
index af853c4e230..34aa015d7ac 100644
--- a/lisp/erc/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/erc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-04-09  Chong Yidong  <cyd@gnu.org>
+
+        * erc.el (erc-cmd-SET): Call custom-variable-p instead of
+        user-variable-p.
+
 2012-02-08  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * erc-backend.el (erc-coding-system-precedence):
diff --git a/lisp/erc/erc.el b/lisp/erc/erc.el
index b95d42b154a..63777fb3897 100644
--- a/lisp/erc/erc.el
+++ b/lisp/erc/erc.el
@@ -2616,7 +2616,7 @@ VALUE is computed by evaluating the rest of LINE in Lisp."
                            (if (consp val)
                                (concat "\n" (pp-to-string val))
                              (format " %S\n" val)))))
-               (apropos-internal "^erc-" 'user-variable-p))))
+               (apropos-internal "^erc-" 'custom-variable-p))))
      (current-buffer)) t)
    (t nil)))
 (defalias 'erc-cmd-VAR 'erc-cmd-SET)