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24.3.50; error when customizing whitespace-display-mappings

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 15925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, claudio.bley <at> googlemail.com
Subject: Re: bug#15925: 24.3.50;
 error when customizing whitespace-display-mappings
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 10:45:56 -0300

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> (Oops.  Sent the previous mail too early.)
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> Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>> How does the attached patch look? I didn't include changes for the rest
>> of the escape sequences, because of Eli's objections.
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> Looks good.  The only thing that's confusing now is that if you delete
> the char, it displays as \s?
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> M-x customize-variable RET whitespace-display-mappings RET
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> Hit DEL:
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> So there's no difference in the display between a missing character and
> a space character...

I did that on purpose, and this comment tries to explain that:
;; The character widget is not really empty:
;; its value is a single space character.
;; We need to propertize it again, if it became empty for a while.

Try the following in current master (i.e., without my patch applied):

(defcustom foo-option ?. "..."
  :type 'character
  :group 'emacs)

Eval, and confirm that foo-option value is ?.

M-x customize-option RET foo-option RET

Delete the ".", and then click State and Set for Current Session.
You'll see that foo-option was set...but to what? You said there is a
missing character, but really there's not such thing: there is a space
there, and the Widget library will return ?\s for the value of that
widget.

If you do:
M-: foo-option RET
you can confirm foo-option was set to ?\s

That's why I thought it would be less confusing to show the \s at all
times, and say "No, you can't have an empty character widget".  Having a
truly empty character widget wouldn't be of much help, since the
:validate function will complain anyway because the widget doesn't have
a single character.

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