* align.el:

* allout.el:
* apropos.el:
* arc-mode.el:
* autoinsert.el:
* avoid.el:
* battery.el:
* bookmark.el:
* buff-menu.el:
* calculator.el:
* chistory.el:
* cmuscheme.el:
* comint.el:
* compare-w.el:
* dabbrev.el:
* delim-col.el:
* desktop.el:
* diff-mode.el:
* diff.el:
* dired-aux.el:
* dired-x.el:
* dired.el:
* dos-vars.el:
* ediff-diff.el:
* ediff-help.el:
* ediff-init.el:
* ediff-merg.el:
* ediff-mult.el:
* ediff-ptch.el:
* ediff-vers.el:
* ediff-wind.el:
* ediff.el:
* emerge.el:
* facemenu.el:
* faces.el:
* ffap.el:
* filecache.el:
* find-dired.el:
* font-core.el:
* font-lock.el:
* forms.el:
* fringe.el:
* help-at-pt.el:
* hippie-exp.el:
* ido.el:
* image-file.el:
* imenu.el:
* indent.el:
* info.el:
* isearchb.el:
* iswitchb.el:
* jit-lock.el:
* jka-compr.el:
* log-edit.el:
* lpr.el:
* ls-lisp.el:
* man.el:
* menu-bar.el:
* midnight.el:
* mouse-sel.el:
* mouse.el:
* msb.el:
* outline.el:
* paren.el:
* pcmpl-cvs.el:
* pcmpl-gnu.el:
* pcomplete.el:
* pcvs-info.el:
* pcvs-parse.el:
* printing.el:
* ps-mule.el:
* ps-print.el:
* replace.el:
* ruler-mode.el:
* saveplace.el:
* sb-image.el:
* scroll-bar.el:
* sha1.el:
* shadowfile.el:
* shell.el:
* sort.el:
* speedbar.el:
* strokes.el:
* tempo.el:
* term.el:
* terminal.el:
* time-stamp.el:
* time.el:
* tree-widget.el:
* type-break.el:
* vc-cvs.el:
* vc-hg.el:
* vc-mcvs.el:
* vc-rcs.el:
* vc-sccs.el:
* vc.el:
* view.el:
* w32-vars.el:
* whitespace.el:
* wid-edit.el: Remove leading * from docstrings of defcustoms,
deffaces, defconsts and defuns.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/vc.el b/lisp/vc.el
index a4e2b8e027..865a4018eb 100644
--- a/lisp/vc.el
+++ b/lisp/vc.el
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ specific to any particular backend."
   :version "21.1")
 
 (defcustom vc-diff-knows-L nil
-  "*Indicates whether diff understands the -L option.
+  "Indicates whether diff understands the -L option.
 The value is either `yes', `no', or nil.  If it is nil, VC tries
 to use -L and sets this variable to remember whether it worked."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "Work out" nil) (const yes) (const no))
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ See `run-hooks'."
 (defcustom vc-static-header-alist
   '(("\\.c\\'" .
      "\n#ifndef lint\nstatic char vcid[] = \"\%s\";\n#endif /* lint */\n"))
-  "*Associate static header string templates with file types.
+  "Associate static header string templates with file types.
 A \%s in the template is replaced with the first string associated with
 the file's version control type in `vc-header-alist'."
   :type '(repeat (cons :format "%v"
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ the file's version control type in `vc-header-alist'."
 
 (defcustom vc-comment-alist
   '((nroff-mode ".\\\"" ""))
-  "*Special comment delimiters for generating VC headers.
+  "Special comment delimiters for generating VC headers.
 Add an entry in this list if you need to override the normal `comment-start'
 and `comment-end' variables.  This will only be necessary if the mode language
 is sensitive to blank lines."
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ is sensitive to blank lines."
   :group 'vc)
 
 (defcustom vc-checkout-carefully (= (user-uid) 0)
-  "*Non-nil means be extra-careful in checkout.
+  "Non-nil means be extra-careful in checkout.
 Verify that the file really is not locked
 and that its contents match what the master file says."
   :type 'boolean
@@ -1402,12 +1402,12 @@ Runs the normal hooks `vc-before-checkin-hook' and `vc-checkin-hook'."
 BACKEND is a symbol such as `CVS', which will be downcased.
 OP is a symbol such as `diff'.
 
-In decreasing order of preference, returns the value of:
+In decreasing order of preference, return the value of:
 vc-BACKEND-OP-switches (e.g. `vc-cvs-diff-switches');
 vc-OP-switches (e.g. `vc-diff-switches'); or, in the case of
 diff only, `diff-switches'.
 
-If the chosen value is not a string or a list, returns nil.
+If the chosen value is not a string or a list, return nil.
 This is so that you may set, e.g. `vc-svn-diff-switches' to t in order
 to override the value of `vc-diff-switches' and `diff-switches'."
   (let ((switches