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Re: font-lock-keywords uses only facename
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: font-lock-keywords uses only facename |
Date: |
Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:55:08 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:48:10AM +0200, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> Is this on purpose? Would it break anything if using faces were
> allowed directly?
It's just historical stupidity. If it were being designed today, it would
probably just use face names directly, but font-lock is _really_ old...
I presume you're asking whether it could do something like:
(if (and (symbolp expr) (not (boundp expr)))
expr ; use face name directly
(eval expr)) ; evaluate EXPR to get face name
?
It seems like it would work, though I wonder if it could cause more
confusion...
-Miles
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