From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems fontifying an autoreverting Buffer Menu Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:35:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200505200235.j4K2Zvn13205@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200505200134.j4K1YlO12946@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116556869 28581 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2005 02:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 02:41:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 20 04:40:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYxRM-0005iK-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 04:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYxRT-00088r-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 22:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYxQw-00084A-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 22:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYxQm-0007vF-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 22:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYxQk-0007ud-Re for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 22:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYxVC-0004SE-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 22:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4K2a3CK012018; Thu, 19 May 2005 21:36:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j4K2Zvn13205; Thu, 19 May 2005 21:35:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200505200134.j4K1YlO12946@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Thu, 19 May 2005 20:34:47 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37376 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37376 It turns out that the new buggish behavior of the auto-reverting Buffer Menu, which I described earlier, is caused by a change made today, namely making Buffer-menu-buffer-face the value of the font-lock-face property rather than the face property. Reverting that change makes the problem completely go away. But I presume that there must have been some good reason for the change. The change is however not mentioned in the ChangeLog: * buff-menu.el (Buffer-menu-buffer-face): In group Buffer-menu. Which does not say that it is now the value of a different text property. It is a non-trivial change, which is very user visible, especially to users not enabling font-lock-mode by default and a change which breaks existing code. So, it should at least be mentioned in the ChangeLog. Sincerely, Luc.