From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Simplification of faces Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:25:24 +0100 Message-ID: <46FFBFE4.8030704@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191165978 5556 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2007 15:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 17:26:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ic0gO-0004N8-En for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:26:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ic0gK-00015v-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ic0gH-000157-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ic0gF-00014Z-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ic0gF-00014O-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic0gB-0004rS-6W; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:25:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50876523A3; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:25:58 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80055 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > However, this would require rewriting the code that calls > `set-face-attribute' and the older functions such as > `set-face-foreground' that set single attributes. There are only > about 8 packages in Emacs which do so, so it would not be a big job. > However, there may be some other programs that users use which still > rely on this feature. > Maybe it would help developers of those other programs to mark those functions as obsolete in 22.2, even though we will not change them until 22.1.