Re: face-attribute-relative-p

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> In lispref/display.texi, this comment is before face-attribute-relative-p:
>
>       The functions above did not exist before Emacs 21.  For compatibility
>     with older Emacs versions, you can use the following functions to set
>     and examine the face attributes which existed in those versions.
>
> Does this really apply to face-attribute-relative-p and
> merge-face-attribute?  I do not see why.

I think that paragraph somehow got misplaced.  It is referring to
set-face-foreground, set-face-stipple, etc., two paragraphs further
down.