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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> You are right in all that, and I wasn't clear.  Consider a user that
> customizes some face to RED, and then wants the server buffer to use
> that face for everything.  She can then customize all the server
> buffers to have a RED face.  But, the point of having a variable would
> be if the user then changes her mind on the original RED face, and
> wants it to be BLUE.  Initially, instead of changing the faces, she
> would only have changed the server buffer face names to point at the
> original RED face name.  So if she changes the original RED face to
> BLUE, then all server buffer faces also changes to BLUE.

Ah, I see.  An extra level of indirection can be good, I see now.
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