bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

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Hello,

This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols names with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name underneath. This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers, such as when writing the init file.

Thank you.

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diff --git a/lisp/cus-edit.el b/lisp/cus-edit.el
index 1ec2708550..f5d0c69894 100644
--- a/lisp/cus-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/cus-edit.el
@@ -561,7 +561,8 @@ custom-unlispify-menu-entry
 	   (unless no-suffix
 	     (goto-char (point-max))
 	     (insert "..."))
-	   (buffer-string)))))
+	   (propertize (symbol-name symbol)
+                       'display (buffer-string))))))
 
 (defcustom custom-unlispify-tag-names t
   "Display tag names as words instead of symbols if non-nil."

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Juri Linkov]

> This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols names
> with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name underneath.
> This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers, such as when
> writing the init file.

Thanks, this is a nice idea.  Your patch allows to copy the symbol by M-w
and paste into a program as a symbol.  The same idea should be used
in 'describe-mode' (C-h m) as well where mode names should be symbols
underneath displayed capitalized strings.

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Juri Linkov]

>> This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols names
>> with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name underneath.
>> This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers, such as when
>> writing the init file.
>
> Thanks, this is a nice idea.  Your patch allows to copy the symbol by M-w
> and paste into a program as a symbol.

But what happens when a variable name is expanded in the customization buffer?
(expanded in the sense that the down arrow is displayed before it)
It seems the name displayed as a symbol, not as a human-readable string.

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>> This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols names
>>> with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name
underneath.
>>> This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers, such as when
>>> writing the init file.
>>
>> Thanks, this is a nice idea.  Your patch allows to copy the symbol by M-w
>> and paste into a program as a symbol.
>
> But what happens when a variable name is expanded in the customization
buffer?
> (expanded in the sense that the down arrow is displayed before it)
> It seems the name displayed as a symbol, not as a human-readable string.

Hello Juri.

I think the problem you see is easily fixed with the attached patch.

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From ea2b85184b7e4fde1cf3e3ba680095177ffed29a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:48:27 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Improve call to widget-create-child-and-convert in cus-edit

* lisp/cus-edit.el (custom-variable-value-create): Pass tag as the
  :tag property value.
---
 lisp/cus-edit.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/cus-edit.el b/lisp/cus-edit.el
index 23ceb3a857..7153ba40e1 100644
--- a/lisp/cus-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/cus-edit.el
@@ -2685,7 +2685,7 @@ custom-variable-value-create
 		    :sample-face (if obsolete
 				     'custom-variable-obsolete
 				   'custom-variable-tag)
-		    tag)
+		    :tag tag)
 		   buttons)
 	     (push (widget-create-child-and-convert
 		    widget type
-- 
2.28.0

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the problem you see is easily fixed with the attached patch.

Thanks; applied to Emacs 28.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

ej32u@protonmail.com writes:

> This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols
> names with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name
> underneath. This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers,
> such as when writing the init file.

Makes sense to me, so I've applied this to Emacs 28.

-- 
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   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> ej32u@protonmail.com writes:
>
>> This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols
>> names with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name
>> underneath. This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers,
>> such as when writing the init file.
>
> Makes sense to me, so I've applied this to Emacs 28.

I think this change broke `C-h S' in Custom buffers:
emacs -Q
M-x customize-option RET fill-column
Put point in Fill Column
C-h S
You get prompted with: Describe symbol (default Hide-fill-column), which
is of course undocumented.
Before, the prompt was:
Describe symbol (default Fill-Column), and typing RET would open an Info
buffer without problems.

I'm not saying the change is bad.  I was just trying to see if this
change will fulfill the request in Bug#400, and I guess it does: C-h v
seems to work just fine, but I guess info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
wasn't ready for the change.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

>>> This patch changes custom-unlispify-menu-entry to display symbols
>>> names with the "display" text property, but to keep the symbol name
>>> underneath. This is good when using try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers,
>>> such as when writing the init file.
>>
>> Makes sense to me, so I've applied this to Emacs 28.
>
> I think this change broke `C-h S' in Custom buffers:

[...]

> I'm not saying the change is bad.  I was just trying to see if this
> change will fulfill the request in Bug#400, and I guess it does: C-h v
> seems to work just fine, but I guess info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
> wasn't ready for the change.

Nope.  Would fixing info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol here be a lot of work?

-- 
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   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

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

>> I'm not saying the change is bad.  I was just trying to see if this
>> change will fulfill the request in Bug#400, and I guess it does: C-h v
>> seems to work just fine, but I guess info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
>> wasn't ready for the change.
>
> Nope.  Would fixing info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol here be a lot of work?

I'm guessing no, because it shouldn't have to guess anymore...but I'm
not familiar with it.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> I'm not saying the change is bad.  I was just trying to see if this
>>> change will fulfill the request in Bug#400, and I guess it does: C-h v
>>> seems to work just fine, but I guess info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
>>> wasn't ready for the change.
>>
>> Nope.  Would fixing info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol here be a lot of
work?
>
> I'm guessing no, because it shouldn't have to guess anymore...but I'm
> not familiar with it.

I did the obvious: commented out the :parse-rule line in
info-lookup-maybe-add-help for the :mode 'Custom-mode, and looks like
its working again.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

>> Nope.  Would fixing info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol here be a lot of work?
>
> I'm guessing no, because it shouldn't have to guess anymore...but I'm
> not familiar with it.

Actually...  Is this a regression?  I just tried this in Emacs 27, and
`C-h S' on "Fill Column" there asks me:


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Which doesn't exist.

After the patch, it says "Hide-fill-column", which doesn't exist either,
but which is basically the same bug -- which is that there's an
invisible string "Hide" before the "Fill Column".

Hm...  Oh!  If I move point into "Fill Column", then it guesses
correctly, but if point is at the "F", then it includes the invisible
"Hide".

The design choices taken in the library here are pretty odd --
transforming symbols to readable forms and then "guessing" to transform
them back, instead of just stashing the real data for easy retrieval...

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> After the patch, it says "Hide-fill-column", which doesn't exist either,
> but which is basically the same bug -- which is that there's an
> invisible string "Hide" before the "Fill Column".
>
> Hm...  Oh!  If I move point into "Fill Column", then it guesses
> correctly, but if point is at the "F", then it includes the invisible
> "Hide".

You are right.  So this patch didn't break `C-h S' at all, it just made
the bug a lot more visible.

Anyway, my lightly testing shows that perhaps relying on the :regexp and
not providing :parse-rule could be enough.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> You are right.  So this patch didn't break `C-h S' at all, it just made
> the bug a lot more visible.
>
> Anyway, my lightly testing shows that perhaps relying on the :regexp and
> not providing :parse-rule could be enough.

Could you whip up a patch for that?

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> You are right.  So this patch didn't break `C-h S' at all, it just made
>> the bug a lot more visible.
>>
>> Anyway, my lightly testing shows that perhaps relying on the :regexp and
>> not providing :parse-rule could be enough.
>
> Could you whip up a patch for that?

Sure, here is the patch I'm running with

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From 54f6295b9180f10216835fbeb91d26031179e93f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 11:06:36 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] info-lookup-symbol: Fix the suggested default value in Custom
 buffers

* lisp/info-look.el (info-lookup-maybe-add-help 'Custom-mode): Don't
pass info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol as the :parse-rule, since we
don't need it anymore.  (Bug#41905)
(info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol): Now unused, mark as obsolete.
---
 lisp/info-look.el | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/info-look.el b/lisp/info-look.el
index 4e379cadef..701a7e6014 100644
--- a/lisp/info-look.el
+++ b/lisp/info-look.el
@@ -648,6 +648,9 @@ info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
 		     (> end beg)))
 	    (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end)))))
     (error nil)))
+;; We don't need this anymore, because now Custom inserts the unlispified name
+;; in the buffer.  (Bug#41905)
+(make-obsolete 'info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol nil "28.1")
 
 (defun info-lookup-guess-gdb-script-symbol ()
   "Get symbol at point in GDB script buffers."
@@ -1065,7 +1068,6 @@ info-complete
  :mode 'Custom-mode
  :ignore-case t
  :regexp "[^][()`'‘’,:\" \t\n]+"
- :parse-rule 'info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
  :other-modes '(emacs-lisp-mode))
 
 (info-lookup-maybe-add-help
-- 
2.28.0

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> Sure, here is the patch I'm running with

Thanks, that makes C-h S use the correct string.  However, the prompt is
confusing:


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Because it's using the string from the buffer...  including the 'display
text property.  Perhaps it should strip all text properties before being
used?

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Sure, here is the patch I'm running with
>
> Thanks, that makes C-h S use the correct string.  However, the prompt is
> confusing:

[...]

> Because it's using the string from the buffer...  including the 'display
> text property.  Perhaps it should strip all text properties before being
> used?

Then I guess we must change info-lookup-interactive-arguments to do that.

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From 1937e2d0119c692683c01eded8585ccafba5349c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 11:06:36 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] info-lookup-symbol: Fix the suggested default value in Custom
 buffers

* lisp/info-look.el (info-lookup-maybe-add-help 'Custom-mode): Don't
pass info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol as the :parse-rule, since we
don't need it anymore.  (Bug#41905)
(info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol): Now unused, mark as obsolete.
(info-lookup-interactive-arguments): Get rid of text properties before
passing the default value to completing-read.
---
 lisp/info-look.el | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/info-look.el b/lisp/info-look.el
index 4e379cadef..76c39bcd86 100644
--- a/lisp/info-look.el
+++ b/lisp/info-look.el
@@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ info-lookup-interactive-arguments
 	 (enable-recursive-minibuffers t)
 	 (value (completing-read
 		 (if default
-		     (format "Describe %s (default %s): " topic default)
+                     (progn (set-text-properties 0 (length default) nil default)
+		            (format "Describe %s (default %s): " topic default))
 		   (format "Describe %s: " topic))
 		 completions nil nil nil 'info-lookup-history default)))
     (list (if (equal value "") default value) mode)))
@@ -648,6 +649,9 @@ info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
 		     (> end beg)))
 	    (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end)))))
     (error nil)))
+;; We don't need this anymore, because now Custom inserts the unlispified name
+;; in the buffer.  (Bug#41905)
+(make-obsolete 'info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol nil "28.1")
 
 (defun info-lookup-guess-gdb-script-symbol ()
   "Get symbol at point in GDB script buffers."
@@ -1065,7 +1069,6 @@ info-complete
  :mode 'Custom-mode
  :ignore-case t
  :regexp "[^][()`'‘’,:\" \t\n]+"
- :parse-rule 'info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol
  :other-modes '(emacs-lisp-mode))
 
 (info-lookup-maybe-add-help
-- 
2.28.0

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> Then I guess we must change info-lookup-interactive-arguments to do that.

Thanks; applied to Emacs 28 with one small change:

> -		     (format "Describe %s (default %s): " topic default)
> +                     (progn (set-text-properties 0 (length default) nil default)
> +		            (format "Describe %s (default %s): " topic default))

I changed this to use substring-no-properties instead of
set-text-properties.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

After all that work, I think we'll have to revert this, anyway.  The
string returned here isn't just used in the buffers themselves, but also
in the buffer names, so this fails:

(ert-deftest so-long-tests-customize ()
  "Test the `so-long-customize' command."
  (so-long-customize)
  (should (string= (buffer-name) "*Customize Group: So Long*")))

*sigh*

Or...  we could work some more on this to fix these use cases.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Or...  we could work some more on this to fix these use cases.

Looking more at this, I think returning a 'display string here is just
wrong in most use cases, so I've reverted the patch (and Mauro's
follow-up patch that fixed some issues with the patch).

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Drew Adams]

> Sure, here is the patch I'm running with

Isn't this comment part of the patch wrong?

+;; We don't need this anymore, because now Custom inserts the unlispified name
+;; in the buffer.  (Bug#41905)


Isn't the fix that it now inserts the _lispified_ name?

____


Anyway, thanks to all for working on this bug.

  - OP for bug #400

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Sure, here is the patch I'm running with
>
> Isn't this comment part of the patch wrong?
>
> +;; We don't need this anymore, because now Custom inserts the
unlispified name
> +;; in the buffer.  (Bug#41905)
>
>
> Isn't the fix that it now inserts the _lispified_ name?
>

Yes, it was wrong, thank you.  But this was reverted, so it's all moot now.

>
> Anyway, thanks to all for working on this bug.
>
>   - OP for bug #400

Looks like we're back to where we started, though :-(

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> Looks like we're back to where we started, though :-(

Yup.

I think the solution here is to stash the data needed somewhere so that
we don't need to guessing round trip.

The most obvious place to stash the data is in the string itself, so
custom-unlispify-tag-name should just put a 'data text property on the
unlispified string (with the symbol), and then the relevant functions
should use that instead of looking at the buffer text.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

I've now taken another whack at this (but storing the actual symbol), and
`C-h S' now works better than before, and no tests are failing.  I'm not
quite sure whether the change here will spill over into Emacs Lisp mode,
but some testing seems to say that it won't...

-- 
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   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've now taken another whack at this (but storing the actual symbol), and
> `C-h S' now works better than before, and no tests are failing.  I'm not
> quite sure whether the change here will spill over into Emacs Lisp mode,
> but some testing seems to say that it won't...

What I liked about the 'display approach is that it didn't seem to
require changes in the describe-* commands to work...

So I thought we could perhaps limit the places where we propertize the
string, and I came up with the attached patch.  But if you still think
it is the wrong way to do it, or if you like your changes better, I
promise I won't insist.

Note that with my patch, we'd still need the info-lookup patch from
yesterday.

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From 6001bb3826e1ec084dcd8ba15b3cb03d83c0f2f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 19:06:06 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Show tag of options and groups unlispified, keep lispified
 names underneath

* lisp/cus-edit.el (custom-unlispify-tag-name): Add an optional
argument, to control whether to add a 'display text property to the
returned string.  With this, Custom can display the tag as an
unlispified name of an user option or a group, while keeping the
lispified name in the buffer, so commands like describe-variable can
pick it up as the default value.  (Bug#41905) (Bug#400)
(custom-buffer-create-internal, customize-browse)
(custom-add-parent-links, custom-group-value-create): Change the
call to custom-unlispify-tag-name accordingly, since now we pass a
propertized string as the :tag value of the widget.

* test/lisp/custom-test.el (custom-test-unlispify-tag-name-propertizing):
New test, to test for this feature.
---
 lisp/cus-edit.el          | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 test/lisp/custom-tests.el | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/cus-edit.el b/lisp/cus-edit.el
index 7153ba40e1..06622631f7 100644
--- a/lisp/cus-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/cus-edit.el
@@ -568,10 +568,18 @@ custom-unlispify-tag-names
   :group 'custom-buffer
   :type 'boolean)
 
-(defun custom-unlispify-tag-name (symbol)
-  "Convert SYMBOL into a menu entry."
-  (let ((custom-unlispify-menu-entries custom-unlispify-tag-names))
-    (custom-unlispify-menu-entry symbol t)))
+(defun custom-unlispify-tag-name (symbol &optional propertizep)
+  "Return a string representing SYMBOL as a tag name.
+
+With PROPERTIZEP non-nil, the string that represents SYMBOL has a 'display text
+property whose value is the return value of `custom-unlispify-menu-entry'.
+The value of the 'display text property depends on the user option
+`custom-unlispify-tag-names'."
+  (let* ((custom-unlispify-menu-entries custom-unlispify-tag-names)
+         (str (custom-unlispify-menu-entry symbol t)))
+    (if propertizep
+        (propertize (symbol-name symbol) 'display str)
+      str)))
 
 (defun custom-prefix-add (symbol prefixes)
   "Add SYMBOL to list of ignored PREFIXES."
@@ -1708,7 +1716,7 @@ custom-buffer-create-internal
 				     :documentation-shown t
 				     :custom-state 'unknown
 				     :tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name
-					   (nth 0 entry))
+                                           (nth 0 entry) t)
 				     :value (nth 0 entry)))
 		    options)
 	  (let ((count 0)
@@ -1719,7 +1727,7 @@ custom-buffer-create-internal
 				   (floor (* 100.0 count) length))
 			  (widget-create (nth 1 entry)
 					 :tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name
-					       (nth 0 entry))
+                                               (nth 0 entry) t)
 					 :value (nth 0 entry))
 			(setq count (1+ count))
 			(unless (eq (preceding-char) ?\n)
@@ -1781,7 +1789,7 @@ customize-browse
     (widget-create 'custom-group
 		   :custom-last t
 		   :custom-state 'unknown
-		   :tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name group)
+		   :tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name group t)
 		   :value group))
   (widget-setup)
   (goto-char (point-min)))
@@ -2355,7 +2363,7 @@ custom-add-parent-links
 		  (insert " ")
 		  (push (widget-create-child-and-convert
 			 widget 'custom-group-link
-			 :tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name symbol)
+			 :tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name symbol t)
 			 symbol)
 			buttons)
 		  (setq parents (cons symbol parents)))))
@@ -4174,7 +4182,7 @@ custom-group-value-create
 		 (push (widget-create-child-and-convert
 			widget (nth 1 entry)
 			:group widget
-			:tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name (nth 0 entry))
+			:tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name (nth 0 entry) t)
 			:custom-prefixes custom-prefix-list
 			:custom-level (1+ level)
 			:custom-last (null members)
@@ -4297,7 +4305,7 @@ custom-group-value-create
 		 (push (widget-create-child-and-convert
 			widget type
 			:group widget
-			:tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name sym)
+			:tag (custom-unlispify-tag-name sym t)
 			:custom-prefixes custom-prefix-list
 			:custom-level (1+ level)
 			:value sym)
diff --git a/test/lisp/custom-tests.el b/test/lisp/custom-tests.el
index 7853c84bb6..d061315714 100644
--- a/test/lisp/custom-tests.el
+++ b/test/lisp/custom-tests.el
@@ -145,4 +145,37 @@ custom-test-show-comment-preserves-changes
                                (widget-apply field :value-to-internal origvalue)
                                "bar"))))))
 
+(ert-deftest custom-test-unlispify-tag-name-propertizing ()
+  "Test that propertizing tag name for variables and faces works as intended."
+  ;; Customize a group that has a dash.
+  ;; The buffer name should have the group name unlispified.
+  (customize-group 'custom-browse)
+  (should (string= (buffer-name) "*Customize Group: Custom Browse*"))
+  ;; Advance to the group tag.
+  (search-forward (get 'custom-browse 'group-documentation))
+  (beginning-of-line)
+  ;; The display property should be the group name unlispified.
+  (should (string= (get-text-property (point) 'display) "Custom Browse"))
+  ;; And we should be able to detect a symbol at point, the group name,
+  ;; lispified.
+  (should (eq (symbol-at-point) 'custom-browse))
+
+  ;; We use the first user option, for testing.
+  (let ((w (car (widget-get (car custom-options) :children))))
+    ;; The symbol name should be the same string stored in :tag, not counting
+    ;; text properties.
+    (should (string= (symbol-name (widget-get w :value))
+                     (widget-get w :tag)))
+    ;; And the 'display text property should be the unlispified symbol name.
+    (should (string= (custom-unlispify-tag-name (widget-get w :value))
+                     (get-text-property 0 'display (widget-get w :tag)))))
+
+  ;; Now try with a face.
+  (customize-face 'scroll-bar)
+  (let ((w (car custom-options)))
+    (should (string= (symbol-name (widget-get w :value))
+                     (widget-get w :tag)))
+    (should (string= (custom-unlispify-tag-name (widget-get w :value))
+                     (get-text-property 0 'display (widget-get w :tag))))))
+
 ;;; custom-tests.el ends here
-- 
2.28.0

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> What I liked about the 'display approach is that it didn't seem to
> require changes in the describe-* commands to work...

That is a good point, and it would make C-h v make work automatically.
But 'display properties are kinda awkward -- for one, the cursor moves
over them in a single skip, so they're a bit confusing in that respect.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What I liked about the 'display approach is that it didn't seem to
>> require changes in the describe-* commands to work...
>
> That is a good point, and it would make C-h v make work automatically.
> But 'display properties are kinda awkward -- for one, the cursor moves
> over them in a single skip, so they're a bit confusing in that respect.

Yes, that's true.  So...perhaps it's better to just ditch that idea.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Juri Linkov]

>>> What I liked about the 'display approach is that it didn't seem to
>>> require changes in the describe-* commands to work...
>>
>> That is a good point, and it would make C-h v make work automatically.
>> But 'display properties are kinda awkward -- for one, the cursor moves
>> over them in a single skip, so they're a bit confusing in that respect.
>
> Yes, that's true.  So...perhaps it's better to just ditch that idea.

Just display spaces over every '-' character (and upper-case letters
at word beginnings):

(concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
        "ill"
        (propertize "-" 'display " ")
        (propertize "c" 'display "C")
        "olumn")

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Juri Linkov]

>>>> What I liked about the 'display approach is that it didn't seem to
>>>> require changes in the describe-* commands to work...
>>>
>>> That is a good point, and it would make C-h v make work automatically.
>>> But 'display properties are kinda awkward -- for one, the cursor moves
>>> over them in a single skip, so they're a bit confusing in that respect.
>>
>> Yes, that's true.  So...perhaps it's better to just ditch that idea.
>
> Just display spaces over every '-' character (and upper-case letters
> at word beginnings):
>
> (concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
>         "ill"
>         (propertize "-" 'display " ")
>         (propertize "c" 'display "C")
>         "olumn")

Actually I meant not concat, but set-text-properties:

(let ((name "fill-column"))
 (set-text-properties 0 1 '(display "F") name)
 (set-text-properties 4 5 '(display " ") name)
 (set-text-properties 5 6 '(display "C") name)
 (insert name))

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Mauro Aranda]

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Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>>>> What I liked about the 'display approach is that it didn't seem to
>>>>> require changes in the describe-* commands to work...
>>>>
>>>> That is a good point, and it would make C-h v make work automatically.
>>>> But 'display properties are kinda awkward -- for one, the cursor moves
>>>> over them in a single skip, so they're a bit confusing in that respect.
>>>
>>> Yes, that's true.  So...perhaps it's better to just ditch that idea.
>>
>> Just display spaces over every '-' character (and upper-case letters
>> at word beginnings):
>>
>> (concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
>>         "ill"
>>         (propertize "-" 'display " ")
>>         (propertize "c" 'display "C")
>>         "olumn")
>
> Actually I meant not concat, but set-text-properties:
>
> (let ((name "fill-column"))
>  (set-text-properties 0 1 '(display "F") name)
>  (set-text-properties 4 5 '(display " ") name)
>  (set-text-properties 5 6 '(display "C") name)
>  (insert name))

I think that's a good idea.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> (concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
>>         "ill"
>>         (propertize "-" 'display " ")
>>         (propertize "c" 'display "C")
>>         "olumn")
>
> Actually I meant not concat, but set-text-properties:
>
> (let ((name "fill-column"))
>  (set-text-properties 0 1 '(display "F") name)
>  (set-text-properties 4 5 '(display " ") name)
>  (set-text-properties 5 6 '(display "C") name)
>  (insert name))

Why not concat?  I think the end result is the same?

Anyway, it's an intriguing idea.  It's perhaps possibly slightly
confusing, but it avoids the problems with a longer display string, and
it fixes the `C-h v' problem.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Juri Linkov]

>>> (concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
>>>         "ill"
>>>         (propertize "-" 'display " ")
>>>         (propertize "c" 'display "C")
>>>         "olumn")
>>
>> Actually I meant not concat, but set-text-properties:
>>
>> (let ((name "fill-column"))
>>  (set-text-properties 0 1 '(display "F") name)
>>  (set-text-properties 4 5 '(display " ") name)
>>  (set-text-properties 5 6 '(display "C") name)
>>  (insert name))
>
> Why not concat?  I think the end result is the same?

No difference, indeed :)  But set-text-properties is cleaner:
we have a string and add properties to it.

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>>> (concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
>>>>         "ill"
>>>>         (propertize "-" 'display " ")
>>>>         (propertize "c" 'display "C")
>>>>         "olumn")
>>>
>>> Actually I meant not concat, but set-text-properties:
>>>
>>> (let ((name "fill-column"))
>>>  (set-text-properties 0 1 '(display "F") name)
>>>  (set-text-properties 4 5 '(display " ") name)
>>>  (set-text-properties 5 6 '(display "C") name)
>>>  (insert name))
>>
>> Why not concat?  I think the end result is the same?
>
> No difference, indeed :)  But set-text-properties is cleaner:
> we have a string and add properties to it.

Yeah, but that's what propertize does, too.  Only less verbosely.

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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Juri Linkov]

>>> (concat (propertize "f" 'display "F")
>>>         "ill"
>>>         (propertize "-" 'display " ")
>>>         (propertize "c" 'display "C")
>>>         "olumn")
>>
>> Actually I meant not concat, but set-text-properties:
>>
>> (let ((name "fill-column"))
>>  (set-text-properties 0 1 '(display "F") name)
>>  (set-text-properties 4 5 '(display " ") name)
>>  (set-text-properties 5 6 '(display "C") name)
>>  (insert name))
>
> Why not concat?  I think the end result is the same?

Actually, you are right - destructive construction of strings is simpler:

(let* ((name (symbol-name 'fill-column))
       (text (replace-regexp-in-string
              "\\b[a-z]"
              (lambda (c) (propertize c 'display (upcase c)))
              (replace-regexp-in-string
	       "[-:/]+"
               (lambda (c) (propertize c 'display " "))
               name))))
  (insert text))

bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Actually, you are right - destructive construction of strings is simpler:
>
> (let* ((name (symbol-name 'fill-column))
>        (text (replace-regexp-in-string
>               "\\b[a-z]"
>               (lambda (c) (propertize c 'display (upcase c)))
>               (replace-regexp-in-string
> 	       "[-:/]+"
>                (lambda (c) (propertize c 'display " "))
>                name))))
>   (insert text))

Makes sense to me.  Perhaps we should back out the fix I made here, and
add this one...  hm...  on the other hand, I think perhaps just doing
both is even better.  That is, do this to the prettified string, but
still add the 'data property.  So this would be a fix for bug#400.

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