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24.0.50; Customize buffer is too wide. Put doc string on separate line.

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Message #62 received at 6755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6755: 24.0.50; Customize buffer is too wide. Put doc string
 on separate line.
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:30:48 +0200

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

> As it stands now, yes, all widgets in customize would get its tag
> filled, unless a different :create function is provided for that
> widget.
>
> I didn't thought of the case of wanting one widget with its tag filled
> and another one with its tag not filled, in a customize buffer.  I didn't
> see the need in that.  When would that be a good thing?

If we're adding a way to allow controlling whether to fill or not, then
it should be flexible.

> If it makes sense, a widget could have a :fill property set to t, for
> example, and in the code that calls the widget creation functions (e.g.,
> widget-create), widget-fill-tag-string would be bound to t.  This goes,
> of course, for all other users of the widget library.

Yes, adding a :fill property sounds better to me...

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