GNU bug report logs - #4787
23.1; in Customize, after showing Lisp expression, how to see normal?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:10:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 4787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4787: 23.1; in Customize, after showing Lisp expression,
 how to see normal?
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 03:34:09 +0200

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> writes:

> With this patch, custom-menu-filter wouldn't be used anymore in Custom,
> but I've found that the jdee package uses it.  Another concern is that
> there might be 3rd party code that assumes these custom menus are
> in the simplified menu format, and add stuff to the list, or some other stuff.
>
> I'm not really sure what to do about it.

Is there a way to make this backwards-compatible?  For instance, by
introducing a new name for the new menu stuff, and having a
compatibility shim for the old custom menus?

I say this without having looked at the code closely, so I'm kinda
uninformed here.  

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