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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:53:27 +0300

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

As the discussion there shows, that proposal has some issues.  On top
of that, I don't currently see how to implement that cleanly (face
merging doesn't know anything about the current column).