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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 5105@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5105: 23.1; doc string of facemenu-set-face
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrewixi2.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E7FD74EBB7DA4BD3BEE5E0DBBF1F288A@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:47:47 -0700")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> You're the one claiming that there is a good (even _obvious_) reason not to.
> What's the reason, if it's so obvious?

Using the name of something isn't as good as using the thing itself, in
general.  For buffers it's usually handy to use the name and the buffer
object itself interchangeably, but I don't see any reason to do the same
with faces.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-02 16:49 bug#5105: 23.1; doc string of facemenu-set-face Drew Adams
2011-07-13 14:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-13 15:39   ` Drew Adams
2011-07-15 16:06     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 16:13       ` Drew Adams
2011-07-18 14:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-18 16:55           ` Drew Adams
2011-08-01 21:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-01 21:47               ` Drew Adams
2011-08-01 22:21                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-08-01 22:48                   ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02  0:31                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02  0:29                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02  1:36                   ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02 15:42                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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