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"Marshall, Simon" <simon.marshall@misys.com> writes:

> How hard is it to make custom only offer genuine groups?  Presumably too
> hard.

You'd have to add the information when you generate cus-load.  I don't
think it would be hard (but I don't volunteer), the question is
whether it is worth it.

> Perhaps something meaningful can be done after customize-group does the
> custom-load-symbol, e.g., say, "oh, it's not a group, but here's a
> customisation buffer containing the list of groups to which it belongs"
> or "oh, it's not a group, it's an X and here's the appropriate
> customisation buffer to customise it".

I prefer the second option, with the caveat that it can be both a
variable and a face, simultaneously.  It isn't even a rare case.