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24.3.50; Index the `default' face in Elisp manual

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Message #15 received at 15371 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 15371 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#15371: 24.3.50; Index the `default' face in Elisp manual
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:05:36 -0800 (PST)

> > 1. Subject line says it all.  Please index face `default'.  It is
> > the most important face, and the default face is an important
> > concept when trying to understand faces in general.
> 
> I don't think that sounds very useful.  I can't imagine anybody
> going to the index to look up "default".

Read the report.  They would be going to look up "default face",
not "default".

You cannot imagine much, it seems.  You also could not imagine
that any code outside the distributed Emacs code would ever
make use of `read-face-name'.

Face `default' is an important Emacs concept.  It is "unimaginable"
that it not be indexed.

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