Re: buffer-face-set changes the fringe, is it a bug?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 18:59:23 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I don't understand.  The left-fringe and right-fringe display properties 
> are there to display something in the fringe, not to change the way the 
> text to which they are attached is displayed.  So why would the natural 
> source of information be the face of the text?

Because that's how these properties work in all other cases, when they
display in the text area.  The fact that this one draws on the fringe
is just a peculiarity.