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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:30:50 +0200

[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.