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24.0.94; Customize: M-TAB moves cursor over tag; clicking button moves cursor over button

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: 11046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#11046: 24.0.94; Customize: M-TAB moves cursor over tag;
 clicking button moves cursor over button
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:08:50 -0300

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
>> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:02:30 -0700
>>
>> emacs -Q
>>
>> M-x customize-option RET site-run-file RET
>>
>> Click Value Menu button.  Choose String in the menu.
>>
>> 1. First bug: Cursor should be in the edit field.  But it is on top of
>> the Value Menu button.
>
> Confirmed.

This is because widget-button-click-moves-point is set to t for
customize buffers, and also because there is no mechanism implemented
for widgets to "pass focus" to others.  If it is a desired feature, I
can try to come up with something.

>> 2. Put cursor at beginning of the edit field.  Hit `M-TAB'.
>>
>> You see this error message: "lookup-words: lookup-words error: No plain
>> word-list found at systemdefault locations.  Customize
>> `ispell-alternate-dictionary' to set yours."
>>
>> But the cursor is moved back on top of the tag `String:', before the
>> `:' (second bug).
>
> I don't get the error message, but a "*Choices*" buffer (because my
> ispell-alternate-dictionary _is_ properly configured), but that buffer
> shows hits for "String".  Here's a sample:
>
> (0) /Usr/Dict/Web2:190067:String       (1)
/Usr/Dict/Web2:190068:Stringboard
> (2) /Usr/Dict/Web2:190069:Stringcourse (3) /Usr/Dict/Web2:190070:Stringend
>
> etc. -- quite un-useful.  IOW, it _really_ tries to complete the word
> "String", which is not what the user wants.

This is because the completion function used for string widgets is
ispell-complete-word and that command will look back from point until it
finds a word to complete.
I can't think of another way of fixing this other than peeking what will
ispell-complete-word try to complete, so I attach a patch that does
that.

> (Shouldn't the type of the widget be "file" instead of "string"?)

I think so.

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