bug#13686: hi-yellow vs. hi-lock-1

[Jambunathan K]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> "hi-lock-1", "hi-lock-2", etc. are the best names.
>> My earlier mail asked for making the highlighting face a "core" one.  So
>> having highlight-1, highlight-2 etc as "core" themable faces will make
>> theme designers pay attention to it.
>
> We could definitely add such core faces.  But in order for that to
> augment current functionality, we still need a way for the user to
> specify the highlighting directly by its attribute.

The last sentence after the comma is not clear to me.  You seem to imply
some-"way" is missing.  Can someone explain what is meant here?

>         Stefan