Subject: bug#10773: set-variable can't change values of user options

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:21:53 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> But I think that has been previously rejected.
>
> That was a long time ago.  We should do it for 24.2.

Reintroducing defvars for define-minor-mode hook variables was done the
following year:

commit 7f17cc40ef9120ba1b1715399432f26e8850505a
Author:     Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
AuthorDate: Mon May 27 12:12:52 2013 -0400

    Always defvar a mode's hook and provide a docstring.
    * lisp/emacs-lisp/easy-mmode.el (define-minor-mode):
    * lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el (define-derived-mode): Always defvar the
    mode hook and provide a docstring.

There's still the question of using allowing these variables to be
customized, and that still doesn't work:

(customize-variable 'flyspell-mode-hook)
-> "NO CUSTOMIZATION DATA; not intended to be customized."

But...  why not?  So I've now added the patch below to Emacs 28.

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/easy-mmode.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/easy-mmode.el
index e3eb9294ed..fdc1233540 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/easy-mmode.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/easy-mmode.el
@@ -335,6 +335,9 @@ define-minor-mode
 No problems result if this variable is not bound.
 `add-hook' automatically binds it.  (This is true for all hook variables.)"
                        modefun)))
+       ;; Allow using using `M-x customize-variable' on the hook.
+       (put ',hook 'custom-type 'hook)
+       (put ',hook 'standard-value (list nil))
 
        ;; Define the minor-mode keymap.
        ,(unless (symbolp keymap)	;nil is also a symbol.

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