Re: You can set this variable in your initialization file.

[Juri Linkov]

>>  Maybe we should put these links only on variables
>>  where the first character of the documentation string
>>  is `*'?
>
> That * was supposed to mark variables that the user would want to
> interactively modify, with M-x set-variable or through customize,
> wasn't it? The set of variables the user could possibly want to set
> through .emacs is a superset of that.

Yes, * forms a subset of variables that the user can set in .emacs,
but it guarantees that this subset doesn't contain a variable
not intended for modification by the user.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/