Re: naming convention for faces?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Miles Bader wrote:

> The names of some emacs faces include the suffix `-face', and some don't
> (notably, the basic faces).  [and isearch uses two faces, one with and
> the other without!]
> 
> While it seems slightly redundant to have such a suffix

I don't think it's redundant: it's useful for searching with `apropos',
and, in general, tells volumes about the variable's purpose.

> is there are convention (if there is, it's obviously not being
> followed very well) for face names?

I vote for changing the names to have the "-face" suffix (after v21.1).  
If we do that, we probably need to keep the old names as aliases, at 
least for some time.