custom-set-variables fails to set variable

[Bill Wohler]

I've found a problem where my mh-letter-mode-hook (in MH-E) isn't
getting called. It is listed properly in the custom-set-variables
stanza, but when I start Emacs, load MH-E, and run customize-option on
mh-letter-mode-hook, the hook is empty! When I enter the hook function,
the hook works again.

Is it because MH-E isn't loaded when custom-set-variables is run? Is it
something MH-E is doing when it is loaded?

I do not see this behavior under Emacs 21 so this is a regression.

I intend to go through the rest of my customization variables to see if
this a trend or an isolated problem. I'll follow up on this thread when
I do.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10)
 of 2005-11-10 on olgas
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
configured using `configure '--with-gtk' 'CFLAGS=-g''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US
  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
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: MH-Folder

Minor modes in effect:
  hl-line-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
h v a DEL DEL a v i o r SPC s o SPC DEL DEL DEL o r 
SPC s h o u l d SPC I SPC r e p o r t SPC i t SPC C-SPC 
C-p C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-w C-a C-n 
C-SPC C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-w C-c 
C-c SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC i <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-x 4 b d r <tab> M-x r e p o r 
t - e m <return>

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