Subject: Re: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:23:03 +0200

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Please remove the colon after the option (or face etc.) name, at least
> when `custom-unlispify-*' is nil.
>
> A colon is a symbol consituent. A command that picks up the symbol at
> point will conveniently pick up the variable etc. name, but it will
> also include the colon (assuming that it correctly respects Lisp
> symbol syntax), which is incorrect.

If I have

(setq custom-unlispify-tag-names nil)

and I customize (randomly) `calculator-bind-escape', then `C-h v' on the
variable name picks this up as expected (without the colon).

So has this been fixed, or do you still see it with other options?

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