bug#5627: 23.1.90; outline-regexp ignores customization

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> customization of this var is the way adapting it at changing needs.
>> A defvar seems rather worst.
> 
> No, as you have noticed, this variable is major-mode dependent, so
> there's no point customizing it with Custom since Custom only knows how
> to manipulate default (aka global) settings.
> 

Probably I ignore something: should't a globally set variable work in a mode also?


> If/when Custom is improved to handle mode-dependent settings, we can
> revisit this, but for now it makes no sense to me to provide it as
> a defcustom.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 

A clean solution in my eyes would be to remove the mode-setting - rather retain the global variable here.
As it's name says, its mode-oriented anyway.

Andreas