Remove * characters from the front of variable docstrings.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el b/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el
index 26db60ddbc2..e2016e206a8 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el
@@ -238,18 +238,18 @@
   :group 'languages)
 
 (defcustom hs-hide-comments-when-hiding-all t
-  "*Hide the comments too when you do an `hs-hide-all'."
+  "Hide the comments too when you do an `hs-hide-all'."
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'hideshow)
 
 (defcustom hs-minor-mode-hook nil
-  "*Hook called when hideshow minor mode is activated or deactivated."
+  "Hook called when hideshow minor mode is activated or deactivated."
   :type 'hook
   :group 'hideshow
   :version "21.1")
 
 (defcustom hs-isearch-open 'code
-  "*What kind of hidden blocks to open when doing `isearch'.
+  "What kind of hidden blocks to open when doing `isearch'.
 One of the following symbols:
 
   code    -- open only code blocks
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ This has effect only if `search-invisible' is set to `open'."
     (bibtex-mode ("@\\S(*\\(\\s(\\)" 1))
     (java-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil nil)
     (js-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil)))
-  "*Alist for initializing the hideshow variables for different modes.
+  "Alist for initializing the hideshow variables for different modes.
 Each element has the form
   (MODE START END COMMENT-START FORWARD-SEXP-FUNC ADJUST-BEG-FUNC).
 
@@ -300,25 +300,25 @@ appropriate values.  The regexps should not contain leading or trailing
 whitespace.  Case does not matter.")
 
 (defvar hs-hide-all-non-comment-function nil
-  "*Function called if non-nil when doing `hs-hide-all' for non-comments.")
+  "Function called if non-nil when doing `hs-hide-all' for non-comments.")
 
 (defvar hs-allow-nesting nil
-  "*If non-nil, hiding remembers internal blocks.
+  "If non-nil, hiding remembers internal blocks.
 This means that when the outer block is shown again,
 any previously hidden internal blocks remain hidden.")
 
 (defvar hs-hide-hook nil
-  "*Hook called (with `run-hooks') at the end of commands to hide text.
+  "Hook called (with `run-hooks') at the end of commands to hide text.
 These commands include the toggling commands (when the result is to hide
 a block), `hs-hide-all', `hs-hide-block' and `hs-hide-level'.")
 
 (defvar hs-show-hook nil
-  "*Hook called (with `run-hooks') at the end of commands to show text.
+  "Hook called (with `run-hooks') at the end of commands to show text.
 These commands include the toggling commands (when the result is to show
 a block), `hs-show-all' and `hs-show-block'.")
 
 (defvar hs-set-up-overlay nil
-  "*Function called with one arg, OV, a newly initialized overlay.
+  "Function called with one arg, OV, a newly initialized overlay.
 Hideshow puts a unique overlay on each range of text to be hidden
 in the buffer.  Here is a simple example of how to use this variable: