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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: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 41905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>, ej32u <at> protonmail.com
Subject: bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:28:29 +0200

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

>> (concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
>>         "ill"
>>         (propertize "-" 'display " ")
>>         (propertize "c" 'display "C")
>>         "olumn")
>
> Actually I meant not concat, but set-text-properties:
>
> (let ((name "fill-column"))
>  (set-text-properties 0 1 '(display "F") name)
>  (set-text-properties 4 5 '(display " ") name)
>  (set-text-properties 5 6 '(display "C") name)
>  (insert name))

Why not concat?  I think the end result is the same?

Anyway, it's an intriguing idea.  It's perhaps possibly slightly
confusing, but it avoids the problems with a longer display string, and
it fixes the `C-h v' problem.

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