From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:15:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83vbxvr4bz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <59B7E7FC-48D0-4737-B1BB-FFAC5BA9E07A@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389122153 23789 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2014 19:15:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 20:15:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0c84-0006qN-V5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:15:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0c84-0007BA-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0c7x-00074m-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:15:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0c7t-0004Bp-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:15:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:46920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0c7n-0004BA-18; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ100C00P9O7U00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:15:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ100CUEPI00LB0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:15:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167659 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:06:15 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > IMO, the implementation, and probably the feature itself, is not > > > TRT. > > > > Sorry, I disagree. I think it's exactly right. > > And what do you say about code that expects that a face's > `foreground' attribute actually reflects the face's current > foreground appearance? I don't understand the issue, but regardless, the fact that bugs exist (if they exist) doesn't mean the design and the general implementation are flawed.