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: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:40:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqi12d3s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bnzo9cja.fsf@gnu.org> <52D3E689.6050902@dancol.org> <8E16225F-53EF-498A-AB35-66EB9B33B859@swipnet.se> <52D43360.6050605@dancol.org> <9BD01B88-AF13-44DD-8DBE-4598BAC136DD@swipnet.se> <52D45C73.6090906@dancol.org> <52D4EBA9.8050802@swipnet.se> <52D4F2C2.8080800@dancol.org> <52D504A7.80104@swipnet.se> <52D514FF.7010404@dancol.org> <52D52312.6070106@swipnet.se> <52D58632.3010106@dancol.org> <381DEBDC-71D8-4FAC-BA55-897FEC73A2FC@swipnet.se> <52D5A072.5010508@dancol.org> <064CFFB5-6E50-40D5-B2CB-2BECC656D93F@swipnet.se> <83txd545n7.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvop4265.fsf@gnu.org> <837ga13zh2.fsf@gnu.org> <8338kp3w0g.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389818430 8413 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 20:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, dancol@dancol.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Josh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 21:40:36 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 1W3XGN-0004o2-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:40:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3XGN-0008Td-EI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:40:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53055) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3XG9-0008TV-Uf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3XG5-0006pg-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:40:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:39965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3XG0-0006oj-NR; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:40:12 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZG00H00MA0Q600@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:40:16 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZG00CFLMR47T80@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:40:16 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:168495 Archived-At: > From: Josh > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:05:05 -0800 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , Jan Dj=E4rv ,=20 > =09Daniel Colascione , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel >=20 > Though this does seem likely, it might be wise to adopt a less > specific name for this attribute now in case other appropriate uses > of this adjustment mechanism later come to light. If we were to > use a name like :attribute-filters or :attribute-adjusters we'd ret= ain > flexibility for the future even though we might only support > adjusting foreground color initially (or indeed ever). It has been a long tradition of Emacs not to generalize before there'= s a clear and present need to.