From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new *Help* argument highlighting Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:58:57 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040511225857.GA2925@fencepost> References: <20040510013534.F994.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> <20040510020140.F99A.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> <87llk0qftn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87oeovq7my.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040511205833.GA8144@fencepost> <87zn8e8wf6.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084316716 30646 80.91.224.253 (11 May 2004 23:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 12 01:05:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNgJ8-0001X3-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 01:05:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNgJ7-0007eL-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 01:05:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgJ0-0002EY-R8 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgH8-0001jt-AE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgDF-0008Ln-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 18:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgDC-0008IT-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 18:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BNgDB-0000oX-VW; Tue, 11 May 2004 18:58:58 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zn8e8wf6.fsf@mail.jurta.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23190 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23190 On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:51:25AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote: > > Which, BTW, is a silly thing to use for the mode-line -- there should be a > > more generic face that's in turn :inherited by Buffer-menu-buffer-face (or > > just change the buffer-menu code to use the third face directly, and add a > > face alias to be backward compatible). > > I don't think new faces should be introduced if there are existing > faces for similar purposes. The point is not that the faces should be separate, but that the existing face name doesn't make sense for the extended use. -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]