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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 57499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:53:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534c9018d222586a161c@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tu5ssi35.fsf@gnu.org>


>
> Or let me turn the table and ask: what do you want to change in the 
> current doc string?  You want to tell that nil requires 2 calls, but 
> unspecified doesn't?
>

I see that this issue is repeatedly confusing users, so I would suggest 
something like:

If FRAME is nil, set the attributes for all existing frames, as well as 
the default for new frames.  If FRAME is t, change the default for new 
frames only.

To reset the value of some attribute to `unspecified', you must use 
'unspecified, not nil.

This seems both much clearer than what we have now, and more correct, 
given that as far as I can tell

(set-face-attribute 'some-face nil :some-attribute 'unspecified)

changes the face attribute to "unspecified" on existing and future frame, 
and

(set-face-attribute 'some-face t :some-attribute 'unspecified)

changes the face attribute to "unspecified" on future frames only.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-31  8:14 bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute? Gregory Heytings
2022-08-31  8:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-31 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 12:04   ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-31 12:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 12:53       ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-08-31 13:06         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 13:43           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-31 16:11             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 18:33               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-31 19:13                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 19:33                   ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-31 19:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 21:13                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-01  7:04                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01  8:25                           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-01  8:44                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01  9:02                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-01 11:33                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 11:56                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-01 12:08                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 13:15                                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-01 14:56                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 17:07                                           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-01 18:24                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 19:35                                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-02 16:00                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-02 20:48                                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-03  6:00                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03  6:43                                                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-03  1:26                                                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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