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Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 41905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ej32u <at> protonmail.com
Subject: bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 09:00:45 -0300

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Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>>> This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols names
>>> with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name
underneath.
>>> This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers, such as when
>>> writing the init file.
>>
>> Thanks, this is a nice idea.  Your patch allows to copy the symbol by M-w
>> and paste into a program as a symbol.
>
> But what happens when a variable name is expanded in the customization
buffer?
> (expanded in the sense that the down arrow is displayed before it)
> It seems the name displayed as a symbol, not as a human-readable string.

Hello Juri.

I think the problem you see is easily fixed with the attached patch.

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