Re: Question about font-lock faces

["Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net>]

Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to interactively query whyt "face" a certain word is
> using in a font-lock mode?

This should work.  I adapted it from a function in emacspeak and have
tested it several times.

(defun rdc-show-face-at-point ()
  "Show value of property faceat point."
  (interactive )
  (let ((f (get-text-property (point) 'face))
        (o
         (delq nil
               (mapcar
                #'(lambda (overlay)
                    (overlay-get overlay 'face))
                (overlays-at (point))))))
    (message "Face %s" f
             (if o
                 o
               " "))))


There might be a better way to do it or there might be a way built into
emacs.  

rdc
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