Re: Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:33:33 +0000
> Cc: Johan Bockgård <address@hidden>, 
>       emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> > > > A 'face' property is documented for general use only for text, not for
> > > > symbol plists.
> > > (put 'rng-error 'face 'rng-error)
> >
> > I don't see how this contradicts what I said.  Do you?
> 
> Well you did say that 'face should *not* be put on symbol plists,
> but the documentation and the code states otherwise.

A single well-documented exception doesn't invalidate the rule.