Subject: Re: bug#57064: describe-face accepts face_name as string

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:41:43 +0200 (CEST)

Aug 9, 2022, 18:30 by [email-masked]:

> [email-masked] writes:
>
>> The documentation for function `describe-face' states that a FACE has
>> to be passed
>>
>> (describe-face FACE &optional FRAME)
>>
>> But the code also calls this
>>
>> (if (stringp f) (setq f (intern f)))
>>
>> Meaning that users can pass tho face-name as a string, but this
>> possibility is not mentioned in the documentation of the function.
>>
>
> We don't document things that we're not recommending people do.
>
> Closing.
>
Why do you not want it used?  What's so wrong about it?