bug#35481: 25.2; table.el should use 'font-lock-face' instead of 'face'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> The patch below does this, but I'm not sure it's right.  When we're
>> using font-lock-face instead of face, then things work as normal when
>> we're using global-font-lock-mode, but if that's off, then we won't get
>> any faces at all.
>>
>> Which would be bad.
>
> I missed this the first time around, but, why would that be bad?  If the
> user turns off font-lock-mode then not getting faces should be expected,
> no?

Font locking is about adding decorative highlights.  The background face
table.el adds is functional -- it says what cell is selected.

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