Subject: Re: bug#57087: 29.0.50; (face-at-point nil t) does not return all faces when hl-line-mode is active

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:20:48 +0300

tags 57087 notabug
thanks

> From: dalanicolai <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:55:13 +0200
> 
> Open some elisp (.el) buffer, place the cursor on some fontified keyword
> (e.g. 'defun') and do `M-: (face-at-point nil t)`. Now activate `(M-x)
> hl-line-mode` and again do `M-: (face-at-point nil t)`. The list shows
> only the `hl-line` face, while the function its docstring says it should
> return multiple faces.

This is a misunderstanding of what the doc string means when it says
"faces".  It doesn't mean that you should see more than one face in
the above situation.

This is not a bug, it's just that your expectations from what
face-at-point can do are incorrect.