From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: 19903@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19903: 24.4; wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold" during enriched-encode
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:55:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761ap3mfx.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pp8x6g4n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:43:52 +0200")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:10:13 +0000
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 06:20:36 +0000
[…]
>>>> I’m unsure where you see an UI issue here? The issue, as
>>>> originally reported, is that face-attribute fails to handle
>>>> string-named faces, which are considered perfectly valid by the
>>>> rest of Emacs (including, say, facep and the display engine.)
>>> Accepting strings instead of symbols is a convenience feature
>>> for users, so it's a UI issue.
>> Could you please elaborate on this? Specifically, does this apply
>> to the interactive or non-interactive use (or both) of
>> facemenu-add-face?
> Both.
Frankly, I fail to see how allowing the first of the following
provides for any additional convenience over the second:
M-x facemenu-add-face RET "bold" RET (adds 'bold face);
M-x facemenu-add-face RET bold RET (adds "bold" one.)
And, similarly:
(facemenu-add-face "bold" here there)
(facemenu-add-face 'bold here there)
[…]
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-19 17:15 bug#19903: 24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"' Jorge
2015-02-19 18:48 ` bug#19903: 24.4; wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold" during enriched-encode Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 8:27 ` bug#19903: 24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"' Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 8:51 ` Jorge
2015-02-20 9:12 ` bug#19903: 24.4; wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold" during enriched-encode Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20 18:56 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20 21:09 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-21 11:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-21 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-25 6:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-25 17:10 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-25 17:55 ` Ivan Shmakov [this message]
2015-02-21 12:12 ` bug#19912: facemenu-add-face: does not handle 'face being set to a property list Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 7:05 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 17:24 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-26 18:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 10:03 ` bug#19903: 24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"' Eli Zaretskii
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