[debbugs-tracker] bug#11299: closed (24.1.50; Make `customize-mode' work for minor modes too, or define `customize-minor-mode')

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #11299,
regarding 24.1.50; Make `customize-mode' work for minor modes too, or define 
`customize-minor-mode'
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> 24.1.50; Make `customize-mode' work for minor modes too, or define	`customize-minor-mode'
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> 1. First, a doc quibble and a question about the status of this command.
> `(elisp) Derived Modes' says, "Only the (still experimental and
> unadvertised) command `customize-mode' currently uses this."
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> It has said this since at least Emacs 22.  If it was an experiment (how
> so? no explanation anywhere, AFAICT), presumably it is over now?  Or at
> least explain in what way it is experimental.  Does it have problems?
> If so what?  It does not help users to characterize something as
> "experimental" if you do not describe the experiment or the associated
> questions/problems.
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> And `customize-mode' is of course not at all "unadvertised", since it is
> documented, including here, in this part of the manual.  This kind of
> writing, characterizing something as experimental or unadvertised does
> not belong in the manual.  And it only becomes more inappropriate with
> time and neglect.
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> 2. AFAICT, there is nothing in the definition or use of `customize-mode'
> that necessarily limits it to major modes.  The only thing that limits
> it this way is that `major-mode' is hard-coded in its definition.
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> Even the use of `custom-group-of-mode' in the definition applies equally
> to minor modes, IIUC.  Likewise, the use of `completion-regexp-list'
> with "-mode\\'" applies to minor modes as well.
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> So please release it from its limitation to major modes.  Minor modes
> can have defcustoms and deffaces and defgroups too.
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> It is OK for the default to be the current major mode, but the use of a
> prefix arg (completion for a mode name) should at least allow for minor
> modes as well as major modes.
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> In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2012-04-19 on MARVIN
> Bzr revision: 107968 address@hidden
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> Configured using:
>  `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
>  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
>  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
>  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
>  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
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> Version: 25.1
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> Pushed to emacs-25 f2536958ec711b50a0cf8714defb921193ea8ae4
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