From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 35076@debbugs.gnu.org, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Subject: bug#35076: [26.1] delete-face [FEATURE REQUEST]
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:09:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkoM3Hm-RtaNKbuF9ED78c4Jy5CntWKudPqzTqeaD66Uw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8336n0h3yp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:33:18 +0300")
tags 35076 + wontfix
close 35076
thanks
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 20:04:03 -0400
>> From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
>>
>> I don't see any command or recommended method for deleting a face. Is
>> there one? Shouldn't there either be one, or a discussion about it in
>> the documentation?
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why would we need such a method?
> What would be a practical use case where it's necessary to delete a
> face (as opposed to simply leaving it alone and not using it)?
>
> I'm asking because implementing this will not be trivial, what with
> all the places where faces are recorded and cached, so we'd need a
> good reason to do that. OTOH, Emacs already knows how to replace a
> face when it is redefined, so it isn't like we waste memory here.
The above quote by Eli makes it clear that we would need a very good
reason to do something like this. It seems like we are missing that
here, and no further details have been given within over a year.
I'm therefore closing this bug report as wontfix.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-21 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-02 0:04 bug#35076: [26.1] delete-face [FEATURE REQUEST] Boruch Baum
2019-04-02 0:15 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-02 0:38 ` Boruch Baum
2019-04-02 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-02 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 2:09 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-21 3:35 ` Boruch Baum
2020-08-21 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 8:17 ` Boruch Baum
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[not found] ` <<8336n0h3yp.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-04-02 15:03 ` Drew Adams
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