Re: font-lock-keywords uses only facename

[Miles Bader]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:48:10AM +0200, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> Is this on purpose?  Would it break anything if using faces were
> allowed directly?

It's just historical stupidity.  If it were being designed today, it would
probably just use face names directly, but font-lock is _really_ old...

I presume you're asking whether it could do something like:

   (if (and (symbolp expr) (not (boundp expr)))
       expr        ; use face name directly
     (eval expr))  ; evaluate EXPR to get face name

?

It seems like it would work, though I wonder if it could cause more
confusion...

-Miles
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