* Miles Bader (2005-03-28) writes: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:00:55 +0200, Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Does this mean using an expression is the canonical way of referring >> to faces in `font-lock-keywords' and using a symbol is only supported >> for reasons of backward compatibility by faces with an associated >> variable? > > No, it's just an expression -- for the standard font-lock faces there > are variable names that are _exactly_ the same as the face names, > which evaluate to the corresponding face name.
Yes, that was what I was referring to. But as only the font-lock faces and not the standard faces provide these variables, wouldn't it make sense to encourage the use of expressions and deprecate the use of symbols? AUCTeX is using both a defface and a defvar for defining its faces as well. But if only expressions are used in `font-lock-keywords', I can get rid of the defvars. -- Ralf _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
