Re: intern-soft, find-face/get-face, and facep for determining faces' definedness

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:01:49AM -0500, Stefan wrote:
> I've never seen the vector used in Elisp for anything, so yes: it's just
> a useless (and arguably ugly) artifact of the implementation.

They actually are used though, e.g., in `face-attribute'.  In that case they
are nice because they allow one to find the "final" value of a particular
face attribute.

However most lisp code can probably just use `face-attribute' instead.

-Miles
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