Re: Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property

[Johan Bockgård]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Now, flymake.el happened to be unlucky enough to store these
>> properties in the plist of a symbol which, by doubling as a face
>> symbol, already had some implementation-specific a meaning for some
>> of those properties.
>
> A 'face' property is documented for general use only for text, not for
> symbol plists.

The `category' feature for text/overlays uses symbol plists to define
its default properties. `face' is probably one the more common
properties to use in a category. Let's see...


...a few minutes later, I find this in rng-valid.el:


(defface rng-error '((t (:inherit font-lock-warning-face)))
[...]
(overlay-put overlay 'category 'rng-error)
[...]
(put 'rng-error 'face 'rng-error)