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Re: New custom faces for rmail.el


From: Bastien Guerry
Subject: Re: New custom faces for rmail.el
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:24:26 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> But AFAICS there are many places where we have both mistakes: 1) have a
>> face *and* a variable, and 2) name them with the *-face suffix.
>
> Having a variable is not necessarily an error.  In the case of
> font-lock, this was done originally so as to allow font-lock faces to be
> changed on a per-buffer basis (by making the variable buffer-local and
> making it point to different faces).  Until Miles installs his changes
> that add the ability to change faces on a per-buffer basis, this is
> still useful.
>
> As for the -face name, this is historical and should probably be
> changed, tho when we changed the others we specifically avoided changing
> the font-lock ones.

Thanks for the clarification.

-- 
Bastien




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