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define-derived-mode/define-minor-mode to declare hook variables

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Message #8 received at 10773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 10773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10773: set-variable can't change values of user options
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:28:16 -0500

Juri Linkov wrote:

> Why users are allowed to change the value of `outline-mode-hook',
> but not `outline-minor-mode-hook'?

The former is defined with (defvar ... "*...").
The latter is not defined anywhere, but as define-derived-mode says
about hooks and has been covered several times:

  No problems result if this variable is not bound.
  `add-hook' automatically binds it.  (This is true for all hook variables.)

I would says it's not very useful to pass a hook to set-variable anyway,
since you need to type a lisp expression, and probably should use
an explicit add-hook statement.

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