Bad effects for defcustoms without group

[David Kastrup]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Hi, if I execute
(symbol-plist nil)
I get
(custom-group ((find-function-transform-list custom-variable)
(LaTeX-section-hook custom-variable)) event-symbol-element-mask (nil
0) event-symbol-elements (nil) modifier-cache ((0)))

The custom-group entries here are from stuff I customized myself or
for which I am responsible myself (too bad).  They come from
defcustoms without a corresponding group.  I don't think that this
should cause them to be put into the (invisible) group "nil".
Instead, we should probably have a top-level group "lost+found" which
is visible when stray customizations exist.

I don't know whether we already have a byte compilation warning for
this case.

In GNU Emacs 22.0.91.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.6)
 of 2006-11-26 on lola
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' '--with-gtk' 
'--without-toolkit-scroll-bars''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-agent-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-decoding-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum