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28.0.50; [PATCH] Use named face for apropos-face-button

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 49162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, info <at> protesilaos.com
Subject: bug#49162: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Use named face for apropos-face-button
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:44:25 +0200

On Jun 22 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
>> Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <info <at> protesilaos.com>,  49162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:00:06 +0200
>> 
>> >>     Category apropos-face-button:
>> >
>> > That's the _button_, not its _face_.
>> 
>> But the new face is the face for the button.
>
> I don't have anything about naming the face apropos-button.  It's
> apropos-face-button that I don't like: it implies that it's a button
> of a face, or something that is apropos button-face; both are wrong.

But that happens to be the name of the button that the face is for, just
like the apropos-variable-button face is the face for the
apropos-variable-button button.  Since face names have no qualifiers,
such duplication is unavoidable.

Andreas.

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