From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Idea: Be able to use text properties as face attributes Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:57:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83bmsm938f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7a902f7b-d808-4d0f-8ff9-b8f07eaddf83@default> <30d920b0-e1de-497d-98de-8b69e835e855@default> <30eb5a49-2d98-4f37-8f8c-32a88cd76827@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490626741 17212 195.159.176.226 (27 Mar 2017 14:59:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 27 16:58:57 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1csW6b-0003OS-Mc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:58:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47193 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW6h-0002lC-Cs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW5Q-0002DN-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW5P-000242-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW5P-00023v-93; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3753 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1csW5O-00033Q-IF; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:57:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <30eb5a49-2d98-4f37-8f8c-32a88cd76827@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:01:22 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213421 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:01:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > In my view, the effect of a applying a face whose spec > contains non-face properties to some text would not > change the text properties of that text (other than its > `face', `font-lock-face', or `mouse-face' property). > It would change only the rendered _effect_, i.e., what > the display engine does. I don't understand what that means, for most text properties, since they don't affect the visual appearance of the text in any way. Which properties, except 'invisible', did you have in mind? I'm confused.