Re: [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/faces.el

[dapfy@t-online.de (Daniel Pfeiffer)]

Juri Linkov wrote:

>Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>  
>
>>    IIRC, you said this was a good idea, so I thought Daniel
>>    had installed it on approval from you -- I just fixed the
>>    technical problems with it.
>>
>>I don't recall saying I liked the idea of defining a display table by
>>default, and I can't see any such message that I sent him in the past
>>few months.  Can you find what I actually said about this?
>>    
>>
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:13:05 +0200 I wrote:

> Apart from this diplay bug, I find this feature so useful, it should be on by
> default with a dedicated face.  Otherwise it's so obscure, few people will
> find out about it.

In Kim F. Storm's reply of 07.10.2004 00:00 he cites you as:

> Daniel, I agree this is a nice feature.

I apparently did not get your mail myself, but took this as an approval, 
once Kim fixed the display bugs.

As for the colour or brightness, feel free to make it anything you like. 
Secondary-selection is just what I've long been using for this. Using a 
background is useful however, since it combines nicely with most 
font-locking, which tends to set foregrounds, boldness, etc.

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Daniel Pfeiffer

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