Subject: Re: bug#400: 23.0.60; C-h v should pick up lispified name in Customize

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:19:22 +0200

> M-x customize-option Info-hide-note-references
 >
 > Put the cursor on the unlispified option name:
 > Info Hide Note References.
 >
 > C-h v
 >
 > The option name is not picked up as the default value. All commands,
 > such as `describe-variable', that ask the user to input a variable
 > name should use the lispified name as the default value:
 > Info-hide-note-references, in this case.
 >
 > The way this should be treated generally is that `Info Hide Note
 > References' should simply be the _displayed form_ of the
 > variable. Under the covers, Emacs should always see the true variable
 > name.

Look at what I did in `info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol'.  Not that I'm
particularly proud of it.  Maybe you can find a cleaner solution.