From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reducing defface redundancy Date: 03 Jul 2002 16:50:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5x3cv0c1c9.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <877kn3qczq.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <871yd9q09b.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <200204220747.g3M7lo301995@aztec.santafe.edu> <200204230024.g3N0OH702333@aztec.santafe.edu> <200204241754.g3OHsIm03235@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025704251 26701 127.0.0.1 (3 Jul 2002 13:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, abraham@dina.kvl.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PkWx-0006wY-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:50:51 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PkcU-0002Ji-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:56:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PkXI-0007Zr-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PkW5-0007Tl-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 59F837C016; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:49:52 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5406 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5406 Miles Bader writes: > After that discussion, my thought was that the proper way to deal with > this is actually simple: when the user changes some attribute, find > out at what `level' in the defface specification the changed attribute > came from, and apply the user's change there; for any attributes _not_ > in the original defface spec, just apply them at the `top' (root) > level. I think this would be very natural (probably more so than the > current behavior, and certainly no worse). I also think it would be > simple to implement. > > What do you think of this suggestion? Sounds fine. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk