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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Cc: 24543-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24543: 25.1; describe-symbol doesn't show face with same name as a variable
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 11:53:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a83ewg43.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9s42suz.fsf@lylat> (message from Alex on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:45:24 -0600)

> From: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
> Cc: 24543@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:45:24 -0600
> 
> > if so, could it break some of the users of this function out there?
> 
> Potentially, but I don't see that being an issue in this case. The
> return value isn't documented, so users shouldn't be (and likely aren't)
> relying on describe-face always returning nil. It makes more sense to
> treat describe-face like describe-{function, variable}.

OK, I pushed the changes.

Thanks.





      reply	other threads:[~2017-08-05  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-25 18:49 bug#24543: 25.1; describe-symbol doesn't show face with same name as a variable Alex
2017-06-16 21:54 ` Alex
2017-07-26  4:28   ` Alex
2017-07-26 14:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-28  7:35   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-28 20:45     ` Alex
2017-08-05  8:53       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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