bug#4787: 23.1; in Customize, after showing Lisp expression, how to see normal?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> With this patch, custom-menu-filter wouldn't be used anymore in Custom,
> but I've found that the jdee package uses it.  Another concern is that
> there might be 3rd party code that assumes these custom menus are
> in the simplified menu format, and add stuff to the list, or some other stuff.
>
> I'm not really sure what to do about it.

Is there a way to make this backwards-compatible?  For instance, by
introducing a new name for the new menu stuff, and having a
compatibility shim for the old custom menus?

I say this without having looked at the code closely, so I'm kinda
uninformed here.  

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