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Standard Faces
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   This table lists all the standard faces and their uses.  Most of them
are used for displaying certain parts of the frames or certain kinds of
text; you can control how those places look by customizing these faces.

`default'
     This face is used for ordinary text.

`mode-line'
     This face is used for mode lines, and for menu bars when toolkit
     menus are not used--but only if `mode-line-inverse-video' is
     non-`nil'.

`modeline'
     This is an alias for the `mode-line' face, for compatibility with
     old Emacs versions.

`header-line'
     This face is used for the header lines of windows that have them.

`menu'
     This face controls the display of menus, both their colors and
     their font.  (This works only on certain systems.)

`fringe'
     This face controls the colors of window fringes, the thin areas on
     either side that are used to display continuation and truncation
     glyphs.

`scroll-bar'
     This face controls the colors for display of scroll bars.

`tool-bar'
     This face is used for display of the tool bar, if any.

`region'
     This face is used for highlighting the region in Transient Mark
     mode.

`secondary-selection'
     This face is used to show any secondary selection you have made.

`highlight'
     This face is meant to be used for highlighting for various
     purposes.

`trailing-whitespace'
     This face is used to display excess whitespace at the end of a
     line, if `show-trailing-whitespace' is non-`nil'.

   In contrast, these faces are provided to change the appearance of
text in specific ways.  You can use them on specific text, when you want
the effects they produce.

`bold'
     This face uses a bold font, if possible.  It uses the bold variant
     of the frame's font, if it has one.  It's up to you to choose a
     default font that has a bold variant, if you want to use one.

`italic'
     This face uses the italic variant of the frame's font, if it has
     one.

`bold-italic'
     This face uses the bold italic variant of the frame's font, if it
     has one.

`underline'
     This face underlines text.

`fixed-pitch'
     This face forces use of a particular fixed-width font.

`variable-pitch'
     This face forces use of a particular variable-width font.  It's
     reasonable to customize this to use a different variable-width
     font, if you like, but you should not make it a fixed-width font.

 - Variable: show-trailing-whitespace
     If this variable is non-`nil', Emacs uses the
     `trailing-whitespace' face to display any spaces and tabs at the
     end of a line.