So, I was customizing the `speedbar' group, and I happened to notice that the entries for `semantic-sb-button-format-tag-function' and `semantic-sb-info-format-tag-function' offered extremely little in the way of documentation, and while the docstrings for those variables could do a better job of describing the contexts to which they are relevant, the main difficulty is in knowing what the various choices mean. A quick look in the vicinity of the functions' definitions revealed the variable `semantic-format-tag-custom-list', which turns out to be where the :type for those two settings comes from. It is defined as follows: