Re: `facemenu-set-face' doesn't add face to the Face menu

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:14:25 -0700
> 
> To "add" FACE in the first paragraph means to apply it to the region. That
> has nothing to do with putting it at the front of the list of faces to be
> used, unless I misunderstand. If you apply it to a region, then the text in
> the region gets that face; that's all - no?

No.  A region can have more than one face applicable to it; Emacs
merges them together when it displays the region.  See the node
"Displaying Faces" in the ELisp manual.

(I wasn't tracking this thread, so maybe the above is largely
irrelevant to what you were discussing.  However, your questions
sounded very general, so I thought I'd answer it in general.)