From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1852: 23.0.60; describe-face: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (:slant oblique) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:29:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87vdslfpdi.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: Stephen Berman , 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 1231713822 31356 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2009 22:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong To: 1852@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 11 23:44:53 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 1LM936-0002hc-MS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:44:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52828 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LM91q-00034K-Jo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LM91m-00033o-9y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LM91k-0002zd-0Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51544 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LM91j-0002zK-QB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:39542) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LM91j-0007gf-8f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:27 -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 n0BMhPO2024966; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:43:25 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0BMZ3QB022680; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:35:03 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Stephen Berman Original-Sender: steve@escher.local.home Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:35:03 +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=B1852.123171298521370 (code B ref 1852); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1852) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 11 Jan 2009 22:29:45 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with SMTP id n0BMTap8021364 for <1852@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:29:38 -0800 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2009 22:29:31 -0000 Original-Received: from i59F55CA7.versanet.de (EHLO escher.local.home) [89.245.92.167] by mail.gmx.net (mp068) with SMTP; 11 Jan 2009 23:29:31 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20778731 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+zJOBUZmWzSOpl65vjYygqySIECtl+HqNQM7LH2u f4EB9cNWs/iOWM Original-Received: by escher.local.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 241E31D103C; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:29:30 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.58 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:29 -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:24004 Archived-At: >> 1. emacs -q >> 2. Put the cursor on any of the characters in the phrase "ABSOLUTELY NO >> WARRANTY" in the splash screen. >> 3. Type C-u C-x = >> 4. In the resulting *Help* buffer click on the link labelled >> "(variable-pitch (:slant oblique))" >> => Emacs beeps and throws the error in the Subject line. > > Since anonymous faces can't be usefully customized, I've changed > describe-face to ignore those. Thanks for the bug report. 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? Steve Berman