Re: Suggested doc change for cus-edit.el

[Per Abrahamsen]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> Or does it mean that there is no defcustom?  

Yes.

> I have the impression
> that Custom completely _ignores_ variables without defcustom.  To try
> I put:
>
>  '(aha "oho")
>
> in my `custom-set-variables' form and Custom seems to completely ignore it.

You need to set the "now" flag.  This is automatically set on rogue
options. 

> M-x customize-option RET aha RET 
>
> says: [No match].  I do not get a Custom buffer with 'aha marked as rogue.

Customize was designed to work on all variables, declared with
customize or not.  Pretty much needed back when nothing was declared
with customize.  Apparently someone decided to remove that feature.