Re: Face specifications in font-lock-keywords.

[Kim F. Storm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> (I'm updating the node Search-based Fontification in the lisp manual.)
>> The lisp manual says that a FACESPEC can be a list of the form
>
>>   (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2...)
>
>> whereas the docstring of font-lock-keywords says that this can be a
>> list of the form:
>
>>   (face VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 PROP3 VAL3 ...)
>
>> The latter is obviously wrong.  But is the former correct?
>
> To me both are equivalent and correct.  What's the problem exactly?

> Regarding the discrepancy, I'd suggest we use the first form since it's
> a bit more explicit.

IMO, both of these are hard to understand at first sight.

I think (face FACE [PROP VAL]...) would be clearer.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk