Re: new *Help* argument highlighting

[Juri Linkov]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>> This problem with bold faces in a mode line was solved recently
>> by using `Buffer-menu-buffer-face' instead of the hard-coded
>> `(:weight bold)'.
>
> Which, BTW, is a silly thing to use for the mode-line -- there should be a
> more generic face that's in turn :inherited by Buffer-menu-buffer-face (or
> just change the buffer-menu code to use the third face directly, and add a
> face alias to be backward compatible).

I don't think new faces should be introduced if there are existing
faces for similar purposes.  However, if new proposed faces for the
mode line (major-mode, minor-mode, vc) will be added then certainly
a special face for the buffer name should be added to the same set
of mode line faces as well.

-- 
Juri Linkov
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