From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:32:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0zudtve.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv7d1nd8xd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> Sounds like that error message should be changed to include
>> what face causes trouble, if possible?
>
> IIUC this message comes when the face is not a symbol but
> a plist of properties, so there's a good chance that
> printing the face will just say (:foreground nil) and thus
> won't help you. [...]
Okay, but why are the face used before they even have a name?
Isn't it better to initialize the faces first, and if it is
attempted to define them using invalid attributes, then that
would be an error?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-29 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-25 12:03 how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors? Eric S Fraga
2022-09-25 13:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-26 9:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-09-26 9:40 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-26 9:50 ` Fraga, Eric
2022-09-27 11:12 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-27 14:08 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-05 12:32 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-10-05 13:31 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-05 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 14:58 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-28 11:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-09-28 15:04 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-29 16:32 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-10-03 19:19 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-10-03 22:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-04 11:06 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-10-05 11:29 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-25 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-25 15:53 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-09-25 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-25 17:20 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-09-25 14:26 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-09-25 15:51 ` Fraga, Eric
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