Re: face renaming

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <buoll5c82dm.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
>>>>>	Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> I've just renamed a bunch of faces in the Emacs trunk to remove the
> trailing "-face".  I've added face-aliases to the old names so they'll
> more or less continue working.

> I'd like to do the same thing in Gnus, but I'm not sure if this is OK
> given the compatibility requirements of the 5.10 branch -- I think the
> face-alias feature was first added in Emacs 21.1 (I no longer have a
> copy of Emacs 20 around to check, and the ChangeLogs are a bit
> ambiguous, but that seems right to me).

> Any comment?

The face-alias feature is surely not available in Emacs 20.
However, I think it is not always necessary to offer the face
aliases because the default face attributions are not so bad.
Emacs 20 users who have customized faces will probably notice
the change, and deal with it by themselves.