font-lock requires face to be `defface'd and `defvar'ed

[Miguel Frasson]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-08-29 on astest
configured using `configure  --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop 
--with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I was defining faces in a major mode when I discover this (apparent)
bug. What happens is that (defface some-face ... ) defines the face
but font-lock-mode apparently needs also that the symbol `some-face'
to be set (apparently expanding to itself) in order to work. This
appears to be known since `C-h v font-lock-string-face RET'describes
the *variable* `font-lock-string-face' has as doc string "Face name to
use for strings."

Possible actions: 
  * fix `deffaces'
  * fix `font-lock'
  * fix emacs-lisp manual

A simple code to illustrate the bug:

;; this code should be enoght to highlight in green all
;; `foo's... however a terrible thing happens: the symbol foo-face
;; is not set :(

(progn
  ;; defining `foo-face' first just using `defface'
  (defface foo-face '((t (:foreground "green"))) "foo face")
  (defconst foo-font-lock-defaults
    '(
      (("foo". foo-face))               ;keywords
      nil nil nil backward-paragraph))
  (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
  (setq font-lock-defaults foo-font-lock-defaults)
  (font-lock-mode nil)                  ; turn font-lock off and on
  (font-lock-mode t))

;; now, we set foo-face to expand to itself (like what happens with
;; faces like `font-lock-string-face') and we execute the same `progn'
;; as before... yes!! all `foo's in green!

(progn
  ;; defining `foo-face'sa face and variable now
  (defface foo-face '((t (:foreground "green"))) "foo face")
  (defvar foo-face 'foo-face)
  (defconst foo-font-lock-defaults
    '(
      (("foo". foo-face))               ;keywords
      nil nil nil backward-paragraph))
  (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
  (setq font-lock-defaults foo-font-lock-defaults)
  (font-lock-mode nil)                  ; turn font-lock off and on
  (font-lock-mode t))


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ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B RET 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B RET

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