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27.1; highlight functions should accept colors too

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: "47313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <47313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#47313: 27.1; highlight functions should accept colors too
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:53:04 +0100

scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> I thought people only used colors to temporarily highlight certain phrases,
> etc. If it's not true then you have a point that faces can do more.

I think it makes sense to continue to use faces here (and not
colours) -- people may want underlining or overstrike or whatever.

Adding colours in addition to faces would be a confusing interface, I
think, so I don't think that would work well.  So I'm closing this bug
report.

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