Re: naming convention for faces?

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't think it's redundant: it's useful for searching with `apropos',
> and, in general, tells volumes about the variable's purpose.

Well that's the thing -- they aren't variables.  They have their own
namespace, and are typically used in a context like

  (put-text-property ... 'face 'foo[-face])

It's like calling all variables `foo-variable'.

-Miles