Re: face-remap-add-relative versus set-face-attribute

[goncholden]

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On Sunday, February 13th, 2022 at 6:32 AM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> goncholden wrote:
>
> > Is this the way to change all buffer text to look bold?
> > (set-face-attribute 'default nil :weight 'bold)
>
> C-h f set-face-attribute RET
>
> ‘:weight’
>
> VALUE specifies the weight of the font to use. It must be
> one of the symbols ‘ultra-heavy’, ‘heavy’, ‘ultra-bold’,
> ‘extra-bold’, ‘bold’, ‘semi-bold’, ‘medium’, ‘normal’,
> ‘book’, ‘semi-light’, ‘light’, ‘extra-light’, ‘ultra-light’,
> or ‘thin’.

I am ok with the weight part.  My inquiry is really about the "'default nil" 
part.
Should I just use bold or 'bold ?