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bug#64759: Broken faces
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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Eli Zaretskii <=