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Raymond Scholz <ray-2001@zonix.de> writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> schrieb:
> 
> > I tested it in Emacs 20.4 and Emacs 20.7. My conclusion is that it is
> > a bug in Emacs 20.4.
> 
> Nope, my Emacs 20.7 (from Debian Potato) is unwilling to customize
> this, too.

The bug is that 20.4 somehow marked it as customizable with 'C-h v',
despite the option not being declared with defcustom.

I don't remember why Emacs choose to disable customization of
variables declared with 'defvar', the custom code is supposed to
handle these (it calls them "rogue" options).