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24.3.50; foreground-color-at-point returns wrong results

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 15900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: RE: bug#15900: 24.3.50; foreground-color-at-point returns wrong
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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:29:57 -0800 (PST)

> > For your solution, I can use a different predicate, but would
> > still have to find all faces at point, no?  What do I miss?
> 
> I don't know, and I don't know what am I missing, either.
> 
> When you say "all the faces at point", what exactly do you mean by
> that?  There can only be one 'face' text property at point, so do
> you mean faces that come from overlays?  If that is what you mean,
> then why isn't get-char-property all you need to have your answer?
> I feel I'm missing something very basic here.

I think he means that the value of property `face' (whether from
a text property or an overlay property) can be a list of faces.
Normally, the attributes of the faces in the list are merged for
display.  See (elisp) `Special Properties' and (elisp `Overlay
Properties'.

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