Variable: allout-old-style-prefixes
allout-old-style-prefixes is a customizable and buffer-local variable
defined in allout.el.gz.
Documentation
When non-nil, use only old-and-crusty outline-mode * topic prefixes.
Non-nil restricts the topic creation and modification functions to asterix-padded prefixes, so they look exactly like the original Emacs-outline style prefixes.
Whatever the setting of this variable, both old and new style prefixes are always respected by the topic maneuvering functions.
Source Code
;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/allout.el.gz
;;;_ = allout-old-style-prefixes
(defcustom allout-old-style-prefixes nil
"When non-nil, use only old-and-crusty `outline-mode' `*' topic prefixes.
Non-nil restricts the topic creation and modification
functions to asterix-padded prefixes, so they look exactly
like the original Emacs-outline style prefixes.
Whatever the setting of this variable, both old and new style prefixes
are always respected by the topic maneuvering functions."
:type 'boolean
:group 'allout)