bug#19217: 25.0.50; `C-M-x' (`eval-defun') on a `defface' that is not top-level

[Drew Adams]

Hi Alan,

> > > What happens when you do C-x C-e with point just after the
> > > `defface' form?
> 
> > As I said, nothing happens.
> 
> OK.  I've hacked the following patch together, which wasn't actually
> all that difficult.  I've tested it out on a defvar, and it works there.
> It gives C-x C-e the same special handling that C-M-x has for defvar's,
> defcustom's, defface's, etc.  It's incomplete (no documentation has
> been changed), but it might do what you need.  Please try it out.

Sorry for the delay.  I tried it, for both defface and defvar, using
this:

(when t
  (defface foo '((((background dark)) (:foreground "#58DFFA4FFFFF"))
                 (t (:foreground "Firebrick")))
    "A face." :group 'help);
  )

(when t
  (defvar toto 42
    "Forty-two.");
  )

After evaling the sexps and then modifying the values
(e.g. Firebrick -> Blue, 42 -> 56), I put point before the `;'
and tried C-x C-e.

Starting from emacs -Q, it works, for both face & var.  With my
setup, however, it does not work (no change from before).  Dunno why.
Tried it with `lexical-binding' t and nil - neither worked.

I'll bisect my setup when I get a moment, to try to find out why it
doesn't work for me.

Thanks for working on this.