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23.0.60; C-h v should pick up lispified name in Customize

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#400: 23.0.60; C-h v should pick up lispified name in Customize
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:39:00 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2020 14:26:35 +0200
> Cc: 400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > emacs -Q
> > 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.

I don't see how using "C-h v" in that case is a reasonable use case,
since the documentation is displayed right below the name of the
option.

We could perhaps have a help command that recognized names of
variables in this format, but then it shouldn't be "C-h v", IMO, since
that command talks about _variables_, whereas a name such as "Info
Hide Note References" is not a variable name.

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