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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: 57499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57499: Documentation bug in the docstring of set-face-attribute?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:39:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tu5ssi35.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534c9018d2f372cd7462@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:04:03 +0000)

> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:04:03 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: 57499@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > This was discussed in bug#54156.  Are there any new findings or 
> > considerations that would require to reopen that discussion?
> >
> 
> As far as I can tell, there are, but if you disagree, feel free to close 
> the bug.  Bug#54156 starts with someone telling that
> 
> (set-face-attribute 'some-face nil :background nil)
> 
> did not have an effect in new frames.  To which you replied:
> 
> >
> > The correct way to do [that] is this:
> > 
> > (set-face-attribute 'some-face nil :background 'unspecified)
> > (set-face-attribute 'some-face t :background 'unspecified)
> >
> > That is, one must explicitly call set-face-attribute with FRAME = t (as 
> > well as nil), and pass 'unspecified' (NOT nil!) as the value.
> >
> 
> and you later added that the call with frame = t is "a special trick to 
> override defface with 'unspecified'".
> 
> It seems however that the call with frame = t is unnecessary, or at least, 
> I could not come up with a scenario in which the first call does not also 
> affect new frames.

I still don't understand what is new here.  All of that was said in
that old discussion. no?

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?





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31 12:39 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 [this message]
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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