Re: font-lock-reference-face no longer defined?

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Stefan.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 14:26:35 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > It was an obsolete alias since Emacs 20.3 and was removed by this
> > commit:
> [...]
> > Code should use font-lock-constant-face instead.  I'm also confused
> > because I still see references to the old variable name in the Emacs
> > codebase.

> There was one reference left in `lisp/cedet/semantic/grammar.el` which
> I just fixed, the rest is all in CC-mode, which I'll leave to Alan.

I've been sorting this out the last few days, and it should be OK now.
It's perhaps more complicated than it need be.

The way CC Mode works with this face is that when the test suite is
running, the test suite creates font-lock-reference-face (along with a
few others) if it doesn't already exist.  (It doesn't in Emacs 29.)
c-reference-face-name is then set to (the artificial)
font-lock-reference-face.

On the other hand, when Emacs 29 is running normally, f-l-ref-face
doesn't exist, so c-reference-face-name is set to
font-lock-constant-face, as is recommended.

>         Stefan

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).