Re: the different faces of ispell

[Michael Heerdegen]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Type damnness (that's not a word) and use ispell; it will be
> highlighted with the face `isearch'.
>
> But type damnness again, as I just did, and use ispell again
> and the isearch face highlight will appear, but so will
> another face for the other occurence of the same, uhm, well,
> it's still not a word.
>
> In addition to the familiar isearch face, there are
>
>   isearch-fail
>   isearch-group-1
>   isearch-group-2
>
> but none of them are the correct, other face.
>
> And since ispell interrupts/blocks normal interactivity with
> its interface, I cant find out what face it is from the
> buffer. Or if I can, I don't know how

Put a `(debug)` before the event reading loop in `ispell-command-loop'.
Then you can inspect the (already attached) faces.

Seems to be the `lazy-highlight` face.

Michael.