From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors?
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:46:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsg41q6v.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wn9g4svm.fsf@sperrhaken.name
Felix Dietrich wrote:
>>> IIUC this message comes when the face is not a symbol but
>>> a plist of properties, so there's a good chance that
>>> printing the face will just say (:foreground nil) and thus
>>> won't help you. [...]
>>
>> Okay, but why are the face used before they even have
>> a name?
>
> Those are *anonymous* faces. You can attach these to text or
> overlay properties. If I recall correctly, the Emacs Lisp
> manual recommends using named faces but recognises that
> anonymous faces might have some uses.
Okay, what use cases are they?
And even so, if they are anonymous faces, why are they
producing a warning for an invalid value, which should then be
part of their definition? Shouldn't that be an error?
Or can you somehow refer to the face, even if it is anonymous,
an make it complete at some later stage?
Oh no, this whole thing ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-03 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-25 12:03 how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors? Eric S Fraga
2022-09-25 13:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-26 9:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-09-26 9:40 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-26 9:50 ` Fraga, Eric
2022-09-27 11:12 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-27 14:08 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-05 12:32 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-10-05 13:31 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-05 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 14:58 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-28 11:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-09-28 15:04 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-29 16:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-03 19:19 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-10-03 22:46 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-10-04 11:06 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-10-05 11:29 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-25 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-25 15:53 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-09-25 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-25 17:20 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-09-25 14:26 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-25 15:51 ` Fraga, Eric
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