From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 1852@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1852: 23.0.60; describe-face: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (:slant oblique)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:38:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljthfdu2.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdslfpdi.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:29:29 +0100")
Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
> Your fix prevents the error from being raised at step 4 above; however,
> the behavior is nevertheless still not what I would naively expect:
> namely, now it switches to a *Help* buffer describing variable-pitch
> face, containing the line
> Slant: unspecified
> i.e., this is not the face that I clicked to get a description of (as
> the tooltip also promises). Wouldn't it be better (if readily
> implementable) to exclude `(:slant oblique)' from the the describe-face
> link?
The "face" you are trying to customize is actually two faces---the
`variable-pitch' face plus an anonymous face consisting of the
property-value pair (:slant oblique). The best that Custom can do is to
allow you to customize the former. The latter can't be customized
because it lacks a face name (how would we save the customized face?).
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2009-01-11 22:29 bug#1852: 23.0.60; describe-face: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (:slant oblique) Stephen Berman
2009-01-12 2:38 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-01-12 12:19 ` Stephen Berman
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2009-01-10 21:20 Stephen Berman
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