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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 13:21:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: laszlomail <at> protonmail.com, 47673 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#47673: Absurdly long input field in Customize
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:53:27 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:24:22 +0300
> Cc: laszlomail <at> protonmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org
> 
> 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).
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