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bug#64759: Broken faces

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: bug#64759: Broken faces Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:39:33 +0300
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 64759@debbugs.gnu.org,  maurooaranda@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:20:44 +0300
> 
> >> 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.

It can and it does.  Emacs doesn't signal an error and doesn't crash.
So there's no problem, just unexpected info.

> > 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?

I don't know, but the documentation says nothing about the semantics
of that.





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