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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: 57499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:17:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534c9018d254f4320097@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534c9018d2adffda3e53@heytings.org>


[Sorry, my previous post was incomplete.]

>
> The docstring of set-face-attribute says:
>
> "As an exception, to reset the value of some attribute to `unspecified' 
> in a way that overrides the non-`unspecified' value defined by the 
> face's spec in `defface', for new frames, you must explicitly call this 
> function with FRAME set to t and the attribute's value set to 
> `unspecified'; just using FRAME of nil will not affect new frames in 
> this case."
>
> Not only is that sentence hard to parse, it also seems wrong.
>
> Can someone come up with a scenario in which a call
>
> (set-face-attribute 'some-face nil :some-attribute 'unspecified)
>
> only affects existing frames?  In my testing it affects all frames 
> (existing and future ones), and that's also what the code seems to do: 
> set-face-attribute sets where to 0 when frame is nil, and calls 
> internal-set-face-attribute
>

with frame = 0, which according to the docstring of 
internal-set-lisp-face-attribute "means change the face on all frames, and 
change the default for new frames".





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31  8:17 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 [this message]
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
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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