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When I do M-x describe-face, the default face is, according to the doc,

"the faces of the character after point"

However, looking at the *Fancy Diary Entries* buffer, I see many different colors, and M-x describe-face offers the diary-button as the default for some characters that have different colors (and the sample in the *Help* buffer for one of them does not match its appearance).

Moreover, (get-char-property (point) 'face) returns diary-button for both of those characters and (face-at-point nil t) returns (diary-button) for them too.

So, how come two characters in the same buffer have different colors but the same faces?

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  • It might be using overlays, which is a different system than text properties for highlighting text?
    – Lindydancer
    Commented Sep 23, 2022 at 14:59
  • You can use the package github.com/Lindydancer/face-explorer to do a more in-depth analysis of the faces in the buffer. It should be able to inspect both text properties and overlays.
    – Lindydancer
    Commented Sep 23, 2022 at 15:01

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Try M-x describe-char

That doesn't have a default key binding, but what-cursor-position (which does) shows the same information if you pass its DETAIL argument:

C-uC-x=

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