Subject: Re: bug#11301: 24.1.50; `define-minor-mode' should set `custom-mode-group' according to :group

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:13:21 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-06-04 10:45:42] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:
>> The "extra args for decustom" are only used when define-minor-mode uses
>> a defcustom, i.e. only for global minor modes.
> Yes.  But why?  :-)

Because we haven't been able to provide Custom support for buffer-local
variables in the many years since `defcustom` was introduced.  ;-)

        Stefan