Re: Customizing faces with `defcustom'

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > However, there is another similar face that is used to highlight text in
 > the mode line: `Buffer-menu-buffer'.  We could create a new group
 > `modeline-faces' and add all modeline-related faces to this new group.
 > The faces that could be added to `modeline-faces' are:
 >
 > Buffer-menu-buffer
 > display-time-mail-face
 > mode-line-highlight
 > mode-line-inactive
 > mode-line
 >

The question is whether the corresponding faces should be simultaneously
removed from the `basic-faces' group.  If they are removed where should
`header-line' - which inherits from `mode-line' - go to?

 > Or alternatively, add `Buffer-menu-buffer' and `display-time-mail-face' to
 > the existing group `modeline' (where three latter faces from the list above
 > already belong to), and add the parent group `faces' to the group `modeline'.
 >

`Buffer-menu-buffer' should definitely figure in the modeline group.
When I first tried to customize the modeline, `Buffer-menu-buffer' was
hard to spot and very undescriptive.  Since `display-time' is already
part of the modeline group I'd simply remove `display-time-mail-face'