GNU bug report logs - #47673
Absurdly long input field in Customize

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: scame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
 editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 "47673 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <47673 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#47673: Absurdly long input field in Customize
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.

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