Re: can you explain the sentence about defvar in elisp?

[waterloo]

thanks

it is in 8.5.1 `defvar' and an asterisk of  emacs23.0.95.1.

2009/7/4 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>

BTW, I don't see the text or the example that you cited anywhere in the Elisp
manual - in Emacs 20, 21, 22, or 23. Where did you find this? In the Elisp
manual, node `Defining Variables', I see `*' described explicitly as pertaining
to command `set-variable'.

If the text you cited is in an Emacs 23 manual somewhere, then please file an
Emacs (doc) bug, using `M-x report-emacs-bug'. Explain that the text you cited
is not clear to you. In particular, "readily settable variable" is unclear. What
is missing (in the text you cited) is an explicit reference to _interactive_
setting using `M-x set-variable'.