Re: buffer-face-set changes the fringe, is it a bug?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 14:43:46 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> OK, so one should use:
> 
> (put-text-property 0 1 'display '(left-fringe question-mark fringe) s)

Yes, if you want to get the 'fringe' face.

> In fact the manual is not as clear as you think, it states (see 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Fringe-Bitmaps.html 
> ):
> 
> (fringe bitmap [face])
> 
> The optional face names a face whose foreground color is used to display 
> the bitmap; this face is automatically merged with the fringe face.
> 
> For me this means that the fringe face is used to display the bitmaps in 
> the fringe, except the :foreground property which can optionally be 
> imported from another face.

Thanks, I clarified the meaning of FACE in that case.