From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#35005: 27.0.50; Fontification unexpectedly works with anonymous faces Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:13:32 +0100 Message-ID: <871rur4u4j.fsf@gnus.org> References: <83r2arj7rv.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8xw6d61.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="191782"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Markus Triska , 35005@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 14:14:27 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQWl1-000nl7-NL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:14:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39118 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQWl0-0000wz-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQWkI-0000wa-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQWkG-000689-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:58372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQWkG-00066r-Ky for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQWk9-00069n-Ez; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:13:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:38:38 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.91.231.51 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241697 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > AFAIK anonymous faces work fine in font-lock. They can be a bit more > delicate to us because many places that accept faces also accept lists > (either of faces or of other things) but in general there's no real > restriction that I know of. > > So I think the "do not accept" part is not true (any more?), but it's > still the case that you're generally better off using named faces > when possible. OK, I'll adjust the text in the manual. Names faces are preferable, but generating faces on the fly is sometimes necessary. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no