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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Aren't variables and faces different things?  The variable identifies
> the name of the face to use, and the face define the actual face.  An
> extra indirection.

One might ask: why the indirection?  Maybe one part of the answer is
that variables can be buffer-local, whereas faces, afaik, can't.
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