How about this doc string? (defun set-variable (var val &optional make-local) "Set VARIABLE to VALUE. VALUE is a Lisp object. VARIABLE should be a user option variable name, a Lisp variable meant to be customized by users. You should enter VALUE in Lisp syntax, so if you want VALUE to be a string, you must surround it with doublequotes. VALUE is used literally, not evaluated.
If VARIABLE has a `variable-interactive' property, that is used as if it were the arg to `interactive' (which see) to interactively read VALUE. If VARIABLE has been defined with `defcustom', then the type information in the definition is used to check that VALUE is valid. With a prefix argument, set VARIABLE to VALUE buffer-locally." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel