Re: Default font 'default have no corresponding variable

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Miles Bader wrote:
> > Why should there be a "corresponding variable"?
>
> Maybe I got this wrong, I thought that there usually were a variable 
> with the same name as the face and that the variable value was the 
> face symbol. But maybe that is just used for faces defined specific 
> uses in emacs libraries?
No. For historical reasons that is the case for font-lock-*-face, and 
many developers of external packages copy that pattern without 
understanding why.

My understanding is that before customize-face existed, it was much 
easier to create a new face than to modify an existing one. So font-lock 
was designed with redirection via a variable to allow the standard faces 
to be swapped out.

> But anyway, as I wrote, libraries written for Xemacs often tends to 
> assume that the variable default exist (and points to a face symbol I 
> believe).

No, you didn't write that as far as I can see.