From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Brahimi Saifullah <brahimi.saifullah@gmail.com>
Cc: 52143@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52143: 29.0.50; Customize type `group' displays a hanging colon
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:53:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmqjufet.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84wnkthhh9.fsf@gmail.com> (Brahimi Saifullah's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:10:26 -0300")
Brahimi Saifullah <brahimi.saifullah@gmail.com> writes:
> Or with a newline:
>
> :format (concat (propertize ":" 'display "") "\n%v")
I think that looks pretty good, so I've pushed it to Emacs 29.
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>>>From what I gather: a colon is necessary, for whatever reason. So having a
>> tag-less type, as `group' claims to be, is not possible through normal means.
>
> I don't know why 'group' should be "tag-less" (whatever that incurs)
> and thus would simply use
>
> (define-widget 'group 'default
> "A widget which groups other widgets inside."
> :convert-widget 'widget-types-convert-widget
> :copy 'widget-types-copy
> :tag "Group"
> :format "%{%t%}:\n%v"
> ...
>
> But maybe there is a reason for the current specification.
I'm guessing the reason is that they wanted to have the display less
cluttered?
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2021-11-27 13:10 bug#52143: 29.0.50; Customize type `group' displays a hanging colon Brahimi Saifullah
2021-11-28 16:16 ` martin rudalics
2021-11-29 15:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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