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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, rrt <at> sc3d.org
Subject: Re: bug#13780: 24.2; Making find-file-hook customizable seems to
 cause troublle
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 06:05:47 -0500

tags 13780 + wontfix
close 13780
thanks

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>
>>> >>> 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)").
>>> >> This sentence seems to be missing its main clause…
>>> >
>>> > That's not just an appearance.  Its main clause is:
>>> >
>>> >    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.
>>
>> IMO, this rationale is good for future additions, not for
>> already-existing user options.  We cannot un-defcustom a user option
>> just because someone became confused by some subtle use case.  This is
>> the price we pay for the flexibility and power we have in Emacs.
>
> Fine by me.

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