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bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, bu


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#41905: Small change: In Customize, display name with with spaces, but keep symbol name underneath.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:33:24 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>>> (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.





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