GNU bug report logs - #36647
26.1; Please align examples of search-based fontification with recommendations

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>

Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:11:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Found in version 26.1

Done: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 36647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
Cc: 36647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36647: 26.1;
 Please align examples of search-based fontification with
 recommendations
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:39:59 -0400

Markus Triska wrote:

> In 39.12.2 Defining Faces, the documentation of defface includes the text:
>
>    "You should not quote the symbol FACE, and
>     it should not end in '-face' (that would be redundant)."
>
> Yet, 23.6.2 Search-based Fontification repeatedly mentions fubar-face as
> example face, and its name does end in -face:
>
>     ;; Highlight occurrences of 'fubar',
>     ;; using the face which is the value of 'fubar-face'.
>     ("fubar" . fubar-face)

fubar-face is not a face, but a variable whose value is a face.
Thus, there is no inconsistency here.
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