Open some elisp (.el) buffer, place the cursor on some fontified keyword (e.g. 'defun') and do `M-: (face-at-point nil t)`. Now activate `(M-x) hl-line-mode` and again do `M-: (face-at-point nil t)`. The list shows only the `hl-line` face, while the function its docstring says it should return multiple faces. When edebugging `face-at-point`, even though `hl-line-mode` is active, the function returns only the char its face (and not `hl-line`). In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-06-12 built on fedora Repository revision: c1829b307cffce046bec6fcbdff03dbab9f4b562 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12014000 System Description: Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) Configured using: 'configure --with-modules --with-cairo --with-native-compilation --with-json' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: ELisp/d Minor modes in effect: hl-line-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug comp comp-cstr warnings rx cl-seq cl-macs cl-extra help-mode message mailcap yank-media rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils hl-line vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode vc-dispatcher cl-loaddefs cl-lib seq gv subr-x byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 89094 14677) (symbols 48 7738 0) (strings 32 21901 915) (string-bytes 1 769799) (vectors 16 16342) (vector-slots 8 317353 20223) (floats 8 30 95) (intervals 56 499 5) (buffers 992 15))