GNU bug report logs - #6755
24.0.50; Customize buffer is too wide. Put doc string on separate line.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 6755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#6755: 24.0.50;
	Customize buffer is too wide. Put doc string on separate line.
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:21:12 -0700

> Starting with a newline didn't look very nice.  Most of the option
> values are short, and moving them away from the button made the
> interface less understandable.
> 
> I think the right solution is to output the string where it 
> is now, but to fill it if it's too long.

Why not just start it on a new line if it would wrap?

IOW, instead of just filling, if it would wrap then start it on a new line.

(You could also then fill it, after starting on a new line, but I doubt that
:tag string will be more than 70 chars.  Still, it wouldn't hurt to do that.)

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