bug#69941: 30.0.50; Faulty fontification of radio button widgets

[Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:32:06 +0300 nobody wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  69941@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:12:42 +0200
>>
>> On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:50:57 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> >> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  69941@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >> Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 11:30:23 +0200
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 25 May 2024 10:51:08 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Ping!  Any further comments about this, or changes to install?
>> >>
>> >> I haven't been able to pursue Stefan's suggestions yet.  For the use
>> >> case for which I made the patch, I find the results overall better than
>> >> without it.  Nevertheless, text inserted in front of the first radio
>> >> button unintentionally getting fontified with widget-inactive face is a
>> >> clear bug, so I think the patch should not be installed; I hope I (or
>> >> someone else) can improve it.
>> >
>> > Stefan, any other comments?  Should I close the bug?
>>
>> While my patch prevents the misfontification I reported in my OP, it
>> adds another source of misfontification and is therefore not suitable
>> for installing.  So the original bug remains and I think this bug report
>> should not yet be closed.
>
> OK, but what shall we do instead?  Is anyone working on this?

I'm really unclear how to try and implement what Stefan suggested.
Perhaps Mauro or someone else more familiar with the widget code might
be able to do it or give me some guidance.

Steve Berman