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Re: how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors?
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors? |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:32:05 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> Sounds like that error message should be changed to include
>> what face causes trouble, if possible?
>
> IIUC this message comes when the face is not a symbol but
> a plist of properties, so there's a good chance that
> printing the face will just say (:foreground nil) and thus
> won't help you. [...]
Okay, but why are the face used before they even have a name?
Isn't it better to initialize the faces first, and if it is
attempted to define them using invalid attributes, then that
would be an error?
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