RE: find face in use at point

[Drew Adams]

    > You might also be interested in library facemenu+.el, which 
    > enhances the facemenu menu a bit (e.g. gives you text
    > properties at mouse pointer). It is available here: 
    > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/facemenu%2b.el.
    
    This pkg needs other non-stock el files to work. like doremi-frm.el
    and I think some other stuff, so it can't just be loaded and used.

Correct.

    Too bad too because it looks nice.

Well, it's not the end of the world to load non-stock libraries ;-).