GNU bug report logs - #39145
28.0.50; dired: Show broken/circular links in different font

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 39145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39145: 28.0.50;
 dired: Show broken/circular links in different font
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:28:47 -0500

Tino Calancha wrote:

> +(defface dired-broken-symlink
> +  '((((class color))
> +     :foreground "yellow1" :background "red1" :weight bold)
> +    (t :weight bold :slant italic :underline t))
> +  "Face used for broken symbolic links."
> +  :group 'dired-faces
> +  :version "28.1")
> +
> +(defvar dired-broken-symlink-face 'dired-broken-symlink
> +  "Face name used for broken symbolic links.")

Why have a variable at all, why not just customize the face?
(If it's just for consistency with existing dired stuff, consider
breaking that consistency.)
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