GNU bug report logs - #41905
Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ej32u <at> protonmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with
 spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:56:20 +0200

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> Makes sense to me, so I've applied this to Emacs 28.
>
> I think this change broke `C-h S' in Custom buffers:

[...]

> I'm not saying the change is bad.  I was just trying to see if this
> change will fulfill the request in Bug#400, and I guess it does: C-h v
> seems to work just fine, but I guess info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
> wasn't ready for the change.

Nope.  Would fixing info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol here be a lot of work?

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