From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:32:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87r0zudtve.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87k05rr79k.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87czbjpq1c.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36608"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ReMHbLS8mVMT5LhsautHl1JuKNo= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 01 14:47:24 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oebtr-0009Kx-H6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oebtp-00078h-Sf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odwSQ-0005tG-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:32:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odwSO-0003Gb-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:32:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1odwSM-0000gT-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:32:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:45:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139686 Archived-At: 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? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal