Remove * characters from the front of variable docstrings.

7 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/vc/add-log.el b/lisp/vc/add-log.el
index be7bba54378..b9c3d0d385a 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/add-log.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/add-log.el
@@ -1122,17 +1122,17 @@ parentheses."
 ;;;###autoload
 (defvar add-log-lisp-like-modes
   '(emacs-lisp-mode lisp-mode scheme-mode dsssl-mode lisp-interaction-mode)
-  "*Modes that look like Lisp to `add-log-current-defun'.")
+  "Modes that look like Lisp to `add-log-current-defun'.")
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defvar add-log-c-like-modes
   '(c-mode c++-mode c++-c-mode objc-mode)
-  "*Modes that look like C to `add-log-current-defun'.")
+  "Modes that look like C to `add-log-current-defun'.")
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defvar add-log-tex-like-modes
   '(TeX-mode plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode tex-mode)
-  "*Modes that look like TeX to `add-log-current-defun'.")
+  "Modes that look like TeX to `add-log-current-defun'.")
 
 (declare-function c-cpp-define-name "cc-cmds" ())
 (declare-function c-defun-name      "cc-cmds" ())
diff --git a/lisp/vc/cvs-status.el b/lisp/vc/cvs-status.el
index a80197486a2..f803cc43441 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/cvs-status.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/cvs-status.el
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ the list is a three-string list TAG, KIND, REV."
    (cvs-tree-use-jisx0208 'jisx0208)
    ((char-displayable-p ?━) 'unicode)
    ((char-displayable-p (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208 40 44)) 'jisx0208))
-  "*Non-nil if we should use the graphical glyphs from `japanese-jisx0208'.
+  "Non-nil if we should use the graphical glyphs from `japanese-jisx0208'.
 Otherwise, default to ASCII chars like +, - and |.")
 
 (defconst cvs-tree-char-space
diff --git a/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el b/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el
index 37b7fce6f32..6d67356852c 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ the command \\[ediff-show-diff-output]. Use the variable
   :group 'ediff-diff)
 
 (ediff-defvar-local ediff-ignore-case nil
-  "*If t, skip over difference regions that differ only in letter case.
+  "If t, skip over difference regions that differ only in letter case.
 This variable can be set either in .emacs or toggled interactively.
 Use `setq-default' if setting it in .emacs")
 
@@ -165,12 +165,12 @@ This variable can be set either in .emacs or toggled interactively.
 Use `setq-default' if setting it in .emacs")
 
 (ediff-defvar-local ediff-ignore-similar-regions nil
-  "*If t, skip over difference regions that differ only in the white space and line breaks.
+  "If t, skip over difference regions that differ only in the white space and line breaks.
 This variable can be set either in .emacs or toggled interactively.
 Use `setq-default' if setting it in .emacs")
 
 (ediff-defvar-local ediff-auto-refine-limit 14000
-  "*Auto-refine only the regions of this size \(in bytes\) or less.")
+  "Auto-refine only the regions of this size \(in bytes\) or less.")
 
 ;;; General
 
@@ -1288,38 +1288,38 @@ delimiter regions"))
 ;;; Word functions used to refine the current diff
 
 (defvar ediff-forward-word-function 'ediff-forward-word
-  "*Function to call to move to the next word.
+  "Function to call to move to the next word.
 Used for splitting difference regions into individual words.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ediff-forward-word-function)
 
 ;; \240 is Unicode symbol for nonbreakable whitespace
 (defvar ediff-whitespace " \n\t\f\r\240"
-  "*Characters constituting white space.
+  "Characters constituting white space.
 These characters are ignored when differing regions are split into words.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ediff-whitespace)
 
 (defvar ediff-word-1
   (if (featurep 'xemacs) "a-zA-Z---_" "-[:word:]_")
-  "*Characters that constitute words of type 1.
+  "Characters that constitute words of type 1.
 More precisely, [ediff-word-1] is a regexp that matches type 1 words.
 See `ediff-forward-word' for more details.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ediff-word-1)
 
 (defvar ediff-word-2 "0-9.,"
-  "*Characters that constitute words of type 2.
+  "Characters that constitute words of type 2.
 More precisely, [ediff-word-2] is a regexp that matches type 2 words.
 See `ediff-forward-word' for more details.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ediff-word-2)
 
 (defvar ediff-word-3 "`'?!:;\"{}[]()"
-  "*Characters that constitute words of type 3.
+  "Characters that constitute words of type 3.
 More precisely, [ediff-word-3] is a regexp that matches type 3 words.
 See `ediff-forward-word' for more details.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ediff-word-3)
 
 (defvar ediff-word-4
   (concat "^" ediff-word-1 ediff-word-2 ediff-word-3 ediff-whitespace)
-  "*Characters that constitute words of type 4.
+  "Characters that constitute words of type 4.
 More precisely, [ediff-word-4] is a regexp that matches type 4 words.
 See `ediff-forward-word' for more details.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ediff-word-4)
diff --git a/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el b/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el
index 2de5e4dbdaf..ad6d69ee924 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ highlighted using ASCII flags."
 (ediff-defvar-local ediff-start-narrowed t
   "Non-nil means start narrowed, if doing ediff-windows-* or ediff-regions-*")
 (ediff-defvar-local ediff-quit-widened t
-  "*Non-nil means: when finished, Ediff widens buffers A/B.
+  "Non-nil means: when finished, Ediff widens buffers A/B.
 Actually, Ediff restores the scope of visibility that existed at startup.")
 
 (defcustom ediff-keep-variants t
diff --git a/lisp/vc/emerge.el b/lisp/vc/emerge.el
index a48f2afecd5..f6942bc538d 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/emerge.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/emerge.el
@@ -524,10 +524,10 @@ replaced by emerge-fast-keymap.")
 (emerge-defvar-local emerge-old-keymap nil
   "The original local keymap for the merge buffer.")
 (emerge-defvar-local emerge-auto-advance nil
-  "*If non-nil, emerge-select-A and emerge-select-B automatically advance to
+                     "If non-nil, emerge-select-A and emerge-select-B automatically advance to
 the next difference.")
 (emerge-defvar-local emerge-skip-prefers nil
-  "*If non-nil, differences for which there is a preference are automatically
+                     "If non-nil, differences for which there is a preference are automatically
 skipped.")
 (emerge-defvar-local emerge-quit-hook nil
   "Hooks to run in the merge buffer after the merge has been finished.
diff --git a/lisp/vc/log-edit.el b/lisp/vc/log-edit.el
index 54d548c09da..db70f417393 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/log-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/log-edit.el
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ can be obtained from `log-edit-files'."
                         "21.1")
 
 (defvar log-edit-changelog-full-paragraphs cvs-changelog-full-paragraphs
-  "*If non-nil, include full ChangeLog paragraphs in the log.
+  "If non-nil, include full ChangeLog paragraphs in the log.
 This may be set in the ``local variables'' section of a ChangeLog, to
 indicate the policy for that ChangeLog.
 
diff --git a/lisp/vc/pcvs-defs.el b/lisp/vc/pcvs-defs.el
index 80a01f58531..ab45b313bd5 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/pcvs-defs.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/pcvs-defs.el
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 ;;;;        START OF THINGS TO CHECK WHEN INSTALLING
 
 (defvar cvs-program "cvs"
-  "*Name or full path of the cvs executable.")
+  "Name or full path of the cvs executable.")
 
 (defvar cvs-version
   ;; With the divergence of the CVSNT codebase and version numbers, this is
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@
                                nil t)
         (cons (string-to-number (match-string 1))
               (string-to-number (match-string 2))))))
-  "*Version of `cvs' installed on your system.
+  "Version of `cvs' installed on your system.
 It must be in the (MAJOR . MINOR) format.")
 
 ;; FIXME: this is only used by cvs-mode-diff-backup
 (defvar cvs-diff-program (or (and (boundp 'diff-command) diff-command) "diff")
-  "*Name or full path of the best diff program you've got.
+  "Name or full path of the best diff program you've got.
 NOTE:  there are some nasty bugs in the context diff variants of some vendor
 versions, such as the one in SunOS-4.")
 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ will select a shared-flag.")
   "List of flags whose settings is shared among several commands.")
 
 (defvar cvs-cvsroot nil
-  "*Specifies where the (current) cvs master repository is.
+  "Specifies where the (current) cvs master repository is.
 Overrides the environment variable $CVSROOT by sending \" -d dir\" to
 all CVS commands. This switch is useful if you have multiple CVS
 repositories. It can be set interactively with \\[cvs-change-cvsroot.]
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ the directory name of the cvs buffer.")
   ;; Was '(expand-file-name " *cvs-tmp*" dir), but that causes them to
   ;; become non-hidden if uniquification is done `forward'.
   " *cvs-tmp*"
-  "*Name of the cvs temporary buffer.
+  "Name of the cvs temporary buffer.
 Output from cvs is placed here for asynchronous commands.")
 
 (defcustom cvs-idiff-imerge-handlers