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bug#64759: Broken faces

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] From: Juri Linkov Subject: bug#64759: Broken faces Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:20:44 +0300 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 
>> It seems adding non-empty definitions in bug#64655
>> were intended to workaround a bug in cus-edit.el,
>> not to fix it.
>
> I don't think it's a bug.  Why is it a bug to tell the user that the
> face has no information to show as the current definition?

How this is different from a variable that has a nil value?
The Customization UI can handle it.

> Moreover, what does it mean to have nil there in defface?  The
> meaning of nil is not documented anywhere that I could see, so what
> did the authors of such code expect it to produce?

Why not nil?  Every variable supports a nil value.  Why can't faces
do the same?

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