Re: Creating recursive customization types / widgets

[Per Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> If the datastructures is recursive, you need to gave a :match argument
>> as well as :type.
>
> Why is that ?
>
>> If not, it will simply match any values that the
>> type specified for :type will match.
>
> Which seems like what we want.  Are there cases where it doesn't work
> and if so, why not (i.e. can we fix it) ?

You need 

  :match 'widget-child-match

in the definition of the 'child' widget, then it seems to work for the
cases I have tried.