From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
Cc: 39812@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39812: 26.1; face-remapping-alist is sometimes set to an unexpected value
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 07:48:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dzz7ysm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7zbrxmw.fsf@metalevel.at> (Markus Triska's message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:15:03 +0100")
Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> writes:
>> face-remap-add-relative destructively modifies the list value, so
>> setting face-remapping-alist to a quoted literal gives unexpected
>> results like this.
>
> Thank you for looking into this! Using copy-tree makes it work.
>
> However, I find it very unexpected that face remapping modifies a value
> that appears as a literal constant in my own code. Is it possible to
> make face remapping word without such destructive side-effects?
I guess it should be easy enough to add a copy-tree call in
face-remap-add-relative, but it looks like a couple of other functions
also modify the value destructively.
> Alternatively, would you please consider documenting how to work around
> this, for example at the place where the sample snippet is mentioned?
So updating the docs might be easier than trying to catch all the
potential trouble spots.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-05 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-27 19:10 bug#39812: 26.1; face-remapping-alist is sometimes set to an unexpected value Markus Triska
2020-02-27 19:57 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-02-28 7:15 ` Markus Triska
2020-03-05 12:48 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2020-03-29 1:33 ` Noam Postavsky
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