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24.2; Making find-file-hook customizable seems to cause troublle

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Subject: bug#13780: 24.2; Making find-file-hook customizable seems to cause troublle
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:52:42 -0700

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Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> 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.
>> So do you think the existing customization ability for find-file-hook
>> should be removed? Or at least some kind of warning attached?
>
> Yes,

So how about the attached?

[0001-Don-t-allow-customizing-find-file-hook.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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