Subject: Re: bug#13780: 24.2; Making find-file-hook customizable seems to cause troublle

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:14:56 -0500

> The real problem here is that find-file-hook is clearly meant to be
> customizable (there is even a check box for auto-indent in its

But Custom only properly handles hooks which is only sets via Custom,
whereas it's reasonably common for find-file-hook to be modified by
packages (via add-hook, of course).
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)").

        Stefan