From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1852: 23.0.60; describe-face: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (:slant oblique) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:38:45 -0500 Message-ID: <87ljthfdu2.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87vdslfpdi.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: Chong Yidong , 1852@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231729423 2377 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2009 03:03:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:03:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1852@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 12 04:04:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMD6j-0006kG-13 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:04:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMD5S-0005RB-AY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMD5P-0005QZ-4C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMD5N-0005Oe-Nu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37325 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMD5N-0005OW-HK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:45425) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMD5M-00011L-Rt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0C33PDU026166; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:03:25 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0C2j2q6021425; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:45:02 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Chong Yidong Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:45:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 1852 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1852-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1852.123172791520130 (code B ref 1852); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1852) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 12 Jan 2009 02:38:35 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu (CYD.MIT.EDU [18.115.2.24]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0C2cW9H020124 for <1852@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:38:33 -0800 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D1C1057E18A; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:38:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87vdslfpdi.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:29:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:30 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:24013 Archived-At: Stephen Berman 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?).