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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:51:25AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > Which, BTW, is a silly thing to use for the mode-line -- there should be a
> > more generic face that's in turn :inherited by Buffer-menu-buffer-face (or
> > just change the buffer-menu code to use the third face directly, and add a
> > face alias to be backward compatible).
> 
> I don't think new faces should be introduced if there are existing
> faces for similar purposes.

The point is not that the faces should be separate, but that the existing
face name doesn't make sense for the extended use.

-Miles
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