Re: facemenu-unlisted-faces

[Miles Bader]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> And, partly for precisely the issue you raise, it is, in general, not a good
> idea to have faces (e.g. `bold', `fixed-pitch') whose names claim a certain
> appearance. Face names like `dired-flagged' communicate what the face is
> for, they don't communicate how it looks; they are in the Emphasis camp, not
> the Bold camp.

"bold", so far as I know, exists mainly for historical reasons.

Faces like "fixed-pitch" exist because they offer a useful abstraction
(some places really need a fixed-pitch face, to display a table or
whatever), and consolidate a common bit of user-specific configuration
data (_which_ fixed-pitch face to use) into a single face (many other
places may indeed also define their own face, and inherit from
`fixed-pitch').

-Miles
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