Re: makefile-mode font-lock bugs and annoyances

[Stefan Monnier]

> There are many other badly named faces too.  You should not follow
> their example (eventually we will rename them).  [If you wish, you can
> rename the old `makefile-space-face' as part of your work -- just add
> a (put OLD 'face-alias NEW) underneath the defface to add a
> compatibility alias.]

Can't we have a deffacealias?  It would feel cleaner to me.
Among other things, it would allow people who see such a form to do C-h f to
get doc about it.  Which is to say, we'd get to document it (the doc could
explain whether the alias works when put on the `face' text-property, or
whether it only affects Custom face settings).


        Stefan