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-rw-r--r--lisp/paths.el8
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 9cf50d4c00b..896d08ea163 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
2011-11-23 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+ * paths.el (rmail-file-name): Reformat the doc-string so that it
+ is picked up.
+
* mail/rmail.el (rmail-message-filter, rmail-auto-file): Doc fixes.
(rmail-auto-file): Ignore case in the "special" field names,
as mail-fetch-field does for all others.
diff --git a/lisp/paths.el b/lisp/paths.el
index 161caf9cb8c..c608fd98993 100644
--- a/lisp/paths.el
+++ b/lisp/paths.el
@@ -132,8 +132,12 @@ should be set to `(system-name)'.")
*The name of your organization, as a string.
The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
-(defcustom rmail-file-name (purecopy "~/RMAIL") "\
-Name of user's primary mail file."
+;; This is a defcustom, which make-docfile does not recognize in
+;; uncompiled Lisp code. If we use the "\ method of writing the doc,
+;; it does not get a doc string. Somehow if we write it in the "wrong"
+;; (ie normal) way (as below), it does... See also remote-shell-program.
+(defcustom rmail-file-name (purecopy "~/RMAIL")
+ "Name of user's primary mail file."
:type 'string
:group 'rmail
:version "21.1")