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authorDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2000-01-31 12:48:43 +0000
committerDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2000-01-31 12:48:43 +0000
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keywordp, user-variable-p change.
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@@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ whose names start with @samp{:} however you wish. This is to make it
possible to run old Lisp programs which do that.
@end defvar
+@defun keywordp object
+@tindex keywordp
+function returns @code{t} if @var{object} is a symbol whose name
+starts with @samp{:}, interned in the standard obarray, and returns
+@code{nil} otherwise.
+@end defun
+
@node Local Variables
@section Local Variables
@cindex binding local variables
@@ -556,10 +563,12 @@ variable intended to be set by the user for customization---and
@code{nil} otherwise. (Variables other than user options exist for the
internal purposes of Lisp programs, and users need not know about them.)
-User option variables are distinguished from other variables by the
-first character of the @code{variable-documentation} property. If the
-property exists and is a string, and its first character is @samp{*},
-then the variable is a user option.
+User option variables are distinguished from other variables either
+though being declared using @code{defcustom}@footnote{They may also be
+declared equivalently in @file{cus-start.el}.} or by the first character
+of their @code{variable-documentation} property. If the property exists
+and is a string, and its first character is @samp{*}, then the variable
+is a user option.
@end defun
@kindex variable-interactive