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bug#13780: 24.2; Making find-file-hook customizable seems to cause troub
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Stefan Kangas |
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bug#13780: 24.2; Making find-file-hook customizable seems to cause troublle |
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Fri, 4 Dec 2020 06:05:47 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
tags 13780 + wontfix
close 13780
thanks
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>
>>> >>> So until Custom is fixed to actually properly handle customisation of
>>> >>> hooks (e.g. by storing "add functions foo, bar, and baz" rather than
>>> >>> "ignore current value and just set it to (foo bar baz)").
>>> >> This sentence seems to be missing its main clause…
>>> >
>>> > That's not just an appearance. Its main clause is:
>>> >
>>> > So until Custom ...blabla... I think it's better to use defcustom for
>>> > hooks very sparingly, i.e. only for those hook we can reasonably
>>> > expect will only be modified by the user's customization.
>>
>> IMO, this rationale is good for future additions, not for
>> already-existing user options. We cannot un-defcustom a user option
>> just because someone became confused by some subtle use case. This is
>> the price we pay for the flexibility and power we have in Emacs.
>
> Fine by me.
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