Re: C-u C-x = prints garbage for a text property with value '(string . ?")

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:08:57 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> In master (probably in emacs-25, too), give a character a text property
> with value (string . ?").  When `describe-property-list' (descr-text.el)
> comes to print it, it decides that (string . ?") is a "widget" (whatever
> that is), and instead of printing the actual value, it ignores the cdr
> and prints the car as follows:
> 
>     string (widget)Top
> 
> It decides that 'string is a "widget" because the symbol string has a
> widget-type property.
> 
> This is crazy!  If somebody does C-u C-x = to see the value of the text
> properties, surely that is what she should see?  Not some "look how
> clever I am" DWIM attempt that only prints half of the value?
> 
> I don't see the logic in this handling, therefore don't feel qualified
> to fix this bug.  Would somebody help me out, please.

Please make a complete bug report with a recipe to reproduce it.