From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: defface not defining a face? Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:57:55 +0100 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87y50jyv43.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> References: <87ha771bye.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394398731 18877 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2014 20:58:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:58:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 21:59:00 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WMkoG-0000n2-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:59:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMkoF-0008QO-Ua for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40319) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMknq-0008OC-Qm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:58:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMknl-0008Ho-Ge for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:58:34 -0400 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:51264 helo=yun.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMknl-0008Eo-7s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WMkni-0000Xg-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:58:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 9 Mar 2014 19:16:22 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96361 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM, lee wrote: > >> (defface lsl-global-variable >> '((((background dark)) (:background "pink" :foreground "black")) >> (t (:background "pink"))) >> "Face to highlight global variables" >> :group 'lsl-faces) > >> Apparently the face is not defined. How come? > > Oh, yes, it is defined. Try (facep 'lsl-global-variable) > > But a face is not a variable, so (boundp 'lsl-global-variable) is nil. So I would need to define a variable like it is done in font-lock.el? Because those work --- and font-lock.el says I shouldn=C2=B4t define a variable for it ... But using 'lsl-global-variable instead of lsl-global-variable works fine :) --=20 Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.