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

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I still don't understand why (facep 'foo) returns nil, even though
>        (put-text-property (point) (+ 10 (point)) 'face 'foo)
>     and
>        (set-face-foreground 'foo "red")

>     work just fine.

> I don't understand what you mean here.  As far as I know, if (facep
> 'foo) returns nil, then (set-face-foreground 'foo "red") will signal
> an error, "Invalid face".  Conversely, if you define foo as face, then
> (facep 'foo) will return t.

Yes, that's what happens under Emacs.  I was talking about XEmacs, tho.


        Stefan