From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Elisp manual: Note that created faces cannot be removed. Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 21:39:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7d8sg7w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190720183715.GC27030@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="102307"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 20 20:39:58 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 1houH0-000QTe-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 20:39:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52468 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1houGz-0005UH-52 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1houGr-0005Tz-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1houGr-0007wj-Ag; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4321 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1houGq-0000oy-HN; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:39:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190720183715.GC27030@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:37:15 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:238749 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:37:15 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > So I propose the following patch, which is surely(?) uncontroversial: > > > diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi > index 276d60b21a..22b7eb0bd1 100644 > --- a/doc/lispref/display.texi > +++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi > @@ -2476,6 +2476,9 @@ Defining Faces > usual procedure is to define a face with @code{defface}, and then use > its name directly. > > +Note that once you have defined a face with @code{defface}, you cannot > +later remove this face except by restarting Emacs. I think without some index entries leading to it, this sentence will be lost in the ocean of the information in the manual.