From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: abraham@dina.kvl.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reducing defface redundancy
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:47:50 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204220747.g3M7lo301995@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871yd9q09b.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (message from Miles Bader on 21 Apr 2002 11:00:16 +0900)
Remember, by default (unless you select `Show All Display Specs'), the
face customization widget basically tosses out all the clauses of the
current defface spec except the active one. So, 99% of the time, the
user only deals with the _current_ definition of a face, and is happy.
Simple face customization is clean now because it affects just one
alternative, and it is easy and well-defined to select just the
alternative that applies.
With your propose defface change, the attributes actually specified
would not come from a single alternative in a simple way. So the
customization of the active parts of the defface spec would raise
difficult issues. If the user adds a new attribute, where in the
structure does it go?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-22 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-20 3:12 reducing defface redundancy Miles Bader
2002-04-20 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-20 15:59 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-20 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-21 9:12 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-20 17:41 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-21 2:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-21 9:17 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-21 9:34 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 7:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-04-22 8:15 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-23 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-23 1:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-24 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-24 20:06 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-25 9:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-26 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-03 6:38 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-03 9:31 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-03 14:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-07-08 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-09 1:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-09 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-09 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-09 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-10 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-11 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-12 1:28 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-12 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-21 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 0:28 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 22:37 ` Richard Stallman
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