From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: buffer-face-set changes the fringe, is it a bug? Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 23:01:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2E75863E-82E2-4D61-AD34-0282362C6E99@gnu.org> <835zb2t1t8.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfjwsiin.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7uksehi.fsf@gnu.org> <838sfvs755.fsf@gnu.org> <834kqjrx6v.fsf@gnu.org> <83zh8bqghl.fsf@gnu.org> <83wo3erbga.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7uiqdbj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32078"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 05:02:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1jtMpS-0008Fx-BN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 05:02:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36264 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtMpR-0003kV-DY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2020 23:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtMoT-0002nj-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2020 23:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48027) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtMoR-0001PY-2w; Wed, 08 Jul 2020 23:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jtMoQ-0005uW-00; Wed, 08 Jul 2020 23:01:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83h7uiqdbj.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:41:20 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252789 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > It is not useful to say in the manual that something produces > unexpected results. Yes, it is better to be a little more specific than that. > It is not > > recommended to omit the @var{face}, as an omitted @var{face} leads to > > unexpected behavior. Why not make that an error instead? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)