lisp/url tiny fixes.

* url-cache.el, url-gw.el, url-history.el, url-irc.el, url-util.el:
* url-vars.el: Remove leading `*' from defcustom docs.

7 files changed, 51 insertions, 45 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/url/ChangeLog b/lisp/url/ChangeLog
index e3f76e72e37..170bedd3b28 100644
--- a/lisp/url/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/url/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-09-11  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * url-cache.el, url-gw.el, url-history.el, url-irc.el, url-util.el:
+        * url-vars.el: Remove leading `*' from defcustom docs.
+
 2010-07-27  Michael Albinus  <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
 
         * url-http (url-http-parse-headers): Disable file name handlers at
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-cache.el b/lisp/url/url-cache.el
index 71841c9a0ca..7cff9aa923d 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-cache.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url-cache.el
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;; url-cache.el --- Uniform Resource Locator retrieval tool
 
-;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004,
-;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
+;;   2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Keywords: comm, data, processes, hypermedia
 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 (defcustom url-cache-directory
   (expand-file-name "cache" url-configuration-directory)
-  "*The directory where cache files should be stored."
+  "The directory where cache files should be stored."
   :type 'directory
   :group 'url-file)
 
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Very fast if you have an `md5' primitive function, suitably fast otherwise."
                                 url-cache-directory))))))
 
 (defcustom url-cache-creation-function 'url-cache-create-filename-using-md5
-  "*What function to use to create a cached filename."
+  "What function to use to create a cached filename."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "MD5 of filename (low collision rate)"
                         :value url-cache-create-filename-using-md5)
                  (const :tag "Human readable filenames (higher collision rate)"
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-gw.el b/lisp/url/url-gw.el
index 9915ccc6781..714d12f3f10 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-gw.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url-gw.el
@@ -37,50 +37,50 @@
   :group 'url)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-local-host-regexp nil
-  "*A regular expression specifying local hostnames/machines."
+  "A regular expression specifying local hostnames/machines."
   :type '(choice (const nil) regexp)
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-prompt-pattern
   "^[^#$%>;]*[#$%>;] *" ;; "bash\\|\$ *\r?$\\|> *\r?"
-  "*A regular expression matching a shell prompt."
+  "A regular expression matching a shell prompt."
   :type 'regexp
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-rlogin-host nil
-  "*What hostname to actually rlog into before doing a telnet."
+  "What hostname to actually rlog into before doing a telnet."
   :type '(choice (const nil) string)
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-rlogin-user-name nil
-  "*Username to log into the remote machine with when using rlogin."
+  "Username to log into the remote machine with when using rlogin."
   :type '(choice (const nil) string)
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-rlogin-parameters '("telnet" "-8")
-  "*Parameters to `url-open-rlogin'.
+  "Parameters to `url-open-rlogin'.
 This list will be used as the parameter list given to rsh."
   :type '(repeat string)
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-telnet-host nil
-  "*What hostname to actually login to before doing a telnet."
+  "What hostname to actually login to before doing a telnet."
   :type '(choice (const nil) string)
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-telnet-parameters '("exec" "telnet" "-8")
-  "*Parameters to `url-open-telnet'.
+  "Parameters to `url-open-telnet'.
 This list will be executed as a command after logging in via telnet."
   :type '(repeat string)
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-telnet-login-prompt "^\r*.?login:"
-  "*Prompt that tells us we should send our username when loggin in w/telnet."
+  "Prompt that tells us we should send our username when loggin in w/telnet."
   :type 'regexp
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-telnet-password-prompt "^\r*.?password:"
-  "*Prompt that tells us we should send our password when loggin in w/telnet."
+  "Prompt that tells us we should send our password when loggin in w/telnet."
   :type 'regexp
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ This list will be executed as a command after logging in via telnet."
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-broken-resolution nil
-  "*Whether to use nslookup to resolve hostnames.
+  "Whether to use nslookup to resolve hostnames.
 This should be used when your version of Emacs cannot correctly use DNS,
 but your machine can.  This usually happens if you are running a statically
 linked Emacs under SunOS 4.x."
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ linked Emacs under SunOS 4.x."
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-nslookup-program "nslookup"
-  "*If non-nil then a string naming nslookup program."
+  "If non-nil then a string naming nslookup program."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "None" :value nil) string)
   :group 'url-gateway)
 
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-history.el b/lisp/url/url-history.el
index 5b4f330ed2e..0cc891b32b7 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-history.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url-history.el
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;; url-history.el --- Global history tracking for URL package
 
-;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004,
-;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
+;;   2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Keywords: comm, data, processes, hypermedia
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   :group 'url)
 
 (defcustom url-history-track nil
-  "*Controls whether to keep a list of all the URLs being visited.
+  "Controls whether to keep a list of all the URLs being visited.
 If non-nil, the URL package will keep track of all the URLs visited.
 If set to t, then the list is saved to disk at the end of each Emacs
 session."
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ session."
   :group 'url-history)
 
 (defcustom url-history-file nil
-  "*The global history file for the URL package.
+  "The global history file for the URL package.
 This file contains a list of all the URLs you have visited.  This file
 is parsed at startup and used to provide URL completion."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "Default" :value nil) file)
   :group 'url-history)
 
 (defcustom url-history-save-interval 3600
-  "*The number of seconds between automatic saves of the history list.
+  "The number of seconds between automatic saves of the history list.
 Default is 1 hour.  Note that if you change this variable outside of
 the `customize' interface after `url-do-setup' has been run, you need
 to run the `url-history-setup-save-timer' function manually."
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-irc.el b/lisp/url/url-irc.el
index 1469cb9eb8b..715eecd211c 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-irc.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url-irc.el
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;; url-irc.el --- IRC URL interface
 
-;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004,
-;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
+;;   2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Keywords: comm, data, processes
 
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
 
 ;;; Commentary:
 
-;; IRC URLs are defined in http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt
+;; IRC URLs are defined in
+;; http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt
 
 ;;; Code:
 
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
 (defconst url-irc-default-port 6667 "Default port for IRC connections.")
 
 (defcustom url-irc-function 'url-irc-rcirc
-  "*Function to actually open an IRC connection.
+  "Function to actually open an IRC connection.
 The function should take the following arguments:
     HOST - the hostname of the IRC server to contact
     PORT - the port number of the IRC server to contact
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-util.el b/lisp/url/url-util.el
index e92ccc76285..8beffe60a7f 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-util.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url-util.el
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defcustom url-debug nil
-  "*What types of debug messages from the URL library to show.
+  "What types of debug messages from the URL library to show.
 Debug messages are logged to the *URL-DEBUG* buffer.
 
 If t, all messages will be logged.
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-vars.el b/lisp/url/url-vars.el
index 65622a06e02..74192478224 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-vars.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url-vars.el
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;; url-vars.el --- Variables for Uniform Resource Locator tool
 
-;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004,
-;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
+;;   2008, 2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Keywords: comm, data, processes, hypermedia
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
         ))
 
 (defcustom url-honor-refresh-requests t
-  "*Whether to do automatic page reloads.
+  "Whether to do automatic page reloads.
 These are done at the request of the document author or the server via
 the `Refresh' header in an HTTP response.  If nil, no refresh
 requests will be honored.  If t, all refresh requests will be honored.
@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ If non-nil and not t, the user will be asked for each refresh request."
   :group 'url-hairy)
 
 (defcustom url-automatic-caching nil
-  "*If non-nil, all documents will be automatically cached to the local disk."
+  "If non-nil, all documents will be automatically cached to the local disk."
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'url-cache)
 
 ;; Fixme: sanitize this.
 (defcustom url-cache-expired
   (lambda (t1 t2) (>= (- (car t2) (car t1)) 5))
-  "*A function determining if a cached item has expired.
+  "A function determining if a cached item has expired.
 It takes two times (numbers) as its arguments, and returns non-nil if
 the second time is 'too old' when compared to the first time."
   :type 'function
@@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ the second time is 'too old' when compared to the first time."
   "Where to send bug reports.")
 
 (defcustom url-personal-mail-address nil
-  "*Your full email address.
+  "Your full email address.
 This is what is sent to HTTP servers as the FROM field in an HTTP
 request."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "Unspecified" nil) string)
   :group 'url)
 
 (defcustom url-directory-index-file "index.html"
-  "*The filename to look for when indexing a directory.
+  "The filename to look for when indexing a directory.
 If this file exists, and is readable, then it will be viewed instead of
 using `dired' to view the directory."
   :type 'string
@@ -166,14 +166,14 @@ variable."
                                     (".hqx" . "x-hqx")
                                     (".Z"  . "x-compress")
                                     (".bz2"  . "x-bzip2"))
-  "*An alist of file extensions and appropriate content-transfer-encodings."
+  "An alist of file extensions and appropriate content-transfer-encodings."
   :type '(repeat (cons :format "%v"
                        (string :tag "Extension")
                        (string :tag "Encoding")))
   :group 'url-mime)
 
 (defcustom url-mail-command 'compose-mail
-  "*This function will be called whenever URL needs to send mail.
+  "This function will be called whenever URL needs to send mail.
 It should enter a mail-mode-like buffer in the current window.
 The commands `mail-to' and `mail-subject' should still work in this
 buffer, and it should use `mail-header-separator' if possible."
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ buffer, and it should use `mail-header-separator' if possible."
   :group 'url)
 
 (defcustom url-proxy-services nil
-  "*An alist of schemes and proxy servers that gateway them.
+  "An alist of schemes and proxy servers that gateway them.
 Looks like ((\"http\" . \"hostname:portnumber\") ...).  This is set up
 from the ACCESS_proxy environment variables."
   :type '(repeat (cons :format "%v"
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ from the ACCESS_proxy environment variables."
   :group 'url)
 
 (defcustom url-standalone-mode nil
-  "*Rely solely on the cache?"
+  "Rely solely on the cache?"
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'url-cache)
 
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ from the ACCESS_proxy environment variables."
 
 (defcustom url-bad-port-list
   '("25" "119" "19")
-  "*List of ports to warn the user about connecting to.
+  "List of ports to warn the user about connecting to.
 Defaults to just the mail, chargen, and NNTP ports so you cannot be
 tricked into sending fake mail or forging messages by a malicious HTML
 document."
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ given priority 1 and the rest are given priority 0.5.")
 
 ;; Fixme: set from the locale.
 (defcustom url-mime-language-string nil
-  "*String to send in the Accept-language: field in HTTP requests.
+  "String to send in the Accept-language: field in HTTP requests.
 
 Specifies the preferred language when servers can serve documents in
 several languages.  Use RFC 1766 abbreviations, e.g.: `en' for
@@ -284,20 +284,20 @@ get the first available language (as opposed to the default)."
   "What OS we are on.")
 
 (defcustom url-max-password-attempts 5
-  "*Maximum number of times a password will be prompted for.
+  "Maximum number of times a password will be prompted for.
 Applies when a protected document is denied by the server."
   :type 'integer
   :group 'url)
 
 (defcustom url-temporary-directory (or (getenv "TMPDIR") "/tmp")
-  "*Where temporary files go."
+  "Where temporary files go."
   :type 'directory
   :group 'url-file)
 (make-obsolete-variable 'url-temporary-directory
                         'temporary-file-directory "23.1")
 
 (defcustom url-show-status t
-  "*Whether to show a running total of bytes transferred.
+  "Whether to show a running total of bytes transferred.
 Can cause a large hit if using a remote X display over a slow link, or
 a terminal with a slow modem."
   :type 'boolean
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ a terminal with a slow modem."
 http://www.example.com/")
 
 (defcustom url-news-server nil
-  "*The default news server from which to get newsgroups/articles.
+  "The default news server from which to get newsgroups/articles.
 Applies if no server is specified in the URL.  Defaults to the
 environment variable NNTPSERVER or \"news\" if NNTPSERVER is
 undefined."
@@ -320,13 +320,13 @@ undefined."
   "A regular expression that will match an absolute URL.")
 
 (defcustom url-max-redirections 30
-  "*The maximum number of redirection requests to honor in a HTTP connection.
+  "The maximum number of redirection requests to honor in a HTTP connection.
 A negative number means to honor an unlimited number of redirection requests."
   :type 'integer
   :group 'url)
 
 (defcustom url-confirmation-func 'y-or-n-p
-  "*What function to use for asking yes or no functions.
+  "What function to use for asking yes or no functions.
 Possible values are `yes-or-no-p' or `y-or-n-p', or any function that
 takes a single argument (the prompt), and returns t only if a positive
 answer is given."
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ answer is given."
   :group 'url-hairy)
 
 (defcustom url-gateway-method 'native
-  "*The type of gateway support to use.
+  "The type of gateway support to use.
 Should be a symbol specifying how to get a connection from the local machine.
 
 Currently supported methods: