Re: Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property

[Daniel Colascione]

On 1/29/19 10:30 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:54:57 -0800
> > From: "Daniel Colascione" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: João Távora <address@hidden>,
> >   address@hidden
> >
> > Making this 'face property on random symbols special is bad design.
>
> I think I agree, but we are about 19 years late for that argument,
> since this was introduced in Emacs 21.

Is it? I don't know how much would break if we fixed this misdesign, but 
my gut feeling is "not muhc".