Subject: bug#47673: Absurdly long input field in Customize

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:24:22 +0300

> I checked the code, and from a cursory look the problem seems to be that
> the :extend property was added to the widget-field face, that's why every
> field became as wide as the screen, because the newline after the field has
> this face:
>
>   https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/b5781e63cbe7e4c24e4eea3a400880857348ad19
>
> this was done to fix this bug:
>
>   https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=37774

In bug#37774 I proposed to support a new value of the :extend attribute
that will extend the field to the fixed width equal to 70 from fill-column.
Would this solve the issue?  Then the field's width will be not too short,
and not overly long.