From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: irenezerafa <irenezerafa@protonmail.com>
Cc: 51715@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51715: defface forms not having dynamic value
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:26:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ee7p5ujr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4r0LmHf2yOM8ZtFlkSfgFoHOVu-qI0dwHhAlsf2WxQbn_V5qvtb4t_c7teGE7DqtW8tlI0DRo9pMo0lVCbz33QZni6U0oaIHog5YxKecn80=@protonmail.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:41:10 +0000
> From: irenezerafa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> I am getting into quite messy code because my macro creates
> defface forms. Those do not have a dynamic value, but use the
> value they get at the time they are evaluated. So using something
> like a variable purple-intense does not help, because its value
> would be a reference to one value, not a function that returns a
> value (and having a function as a value would not be possible for
> a face).
>
> Because the purpose of faces is to be configurable by the user,
> could there be some improvements to easily tackle such problems?
Please tell more. Which face attributes did you want to make dynamic,
and how?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-09 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-09 11:41 bug#51715: defface forms not having dynamic value irenezerafa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-09 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-09 14:17 ` irenezerafa
2021-11-09 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 15:36 ` irenezerafa
2021-11-09 15:40 ` irenezerafa
2021-11-10 0:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10 15:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-10 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 2:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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