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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: BIKESHED: completion faces
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:18:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86c1b45c-0a25-b1ed-ffb1-7dc0e50bd5d9@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83woc983so.fsf@gnu.org>

On 09.11.2019 17:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think you are looking at this from the implementation POV.  From
> users' POV, an option (or a minor mode) is a better way when we are
> talking not just about changing colors and other face attributes, but
> about changing behavior in significant ways.  In this case, what is
> implemented via faces changes the behavior, because a face prominently
> different from the default becomes like the default, and another face
> makes the reverse transformation.  Think of this as a binary mode that
> makes either the first-difference or the common part prominent:
> flipping a variable is an easily understood and easily discovered way
> of getting each user the behavior he/she wants.

How would that work? Having two faces have different default definitions 
depending on the value of the variable?

Any custom face would override that decision. And chasing all theme 
authors to make them honor the variable is a lot of effort.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-10  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 169+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-27  1:58 BIKESHED: completion faces Stefan Monnier
2019-10-27 11:34 ` João Távora
2019-10-27 21:45 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28  0:43   ` João Távora
2019-10-28 22:29     ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 23:31       ` João Távora
2019-10-29 21:53         ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-29 22:09           ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-29 22:57           ` João Távora
2019-10-29  1:12       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-29 21:58         ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-29 22:59           ` João Távora
2019-10-29 23:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-30  1:49   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-03 21:53     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-03 23:30       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-04 16:30         ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-04 18:31           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-04 22:52           ` João Távora
2019-11-04 23:25             ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 11:10               ` João Távora
2019-11-05 14:57                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 15:44                   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-05 16:30                     ` João Távora
2019-11-05 21:27                     ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-05 23:06                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-05 22:01                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06  0:18                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-06  8:24                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 13:42                           ` VOTE: Changing completions-common-part face's default Stefan Monnier
2019-11-06 17:16                             ` João Távora
2019-11-06 17:26                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 18:10                                 ` João Távora
2019-11-06 22:20                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 22:42                                     ` João Távora
2019-11-06 22:57                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 23:14                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-07  8:09                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-07 10:27                                     ` João Távora
2019-11-07 13:27                                       ` Yuri Khan
2019-11-07 13:52                                         ` João Távora
2019-11-07 14:41                                           ` Yuri Khan
2019-11-07 14:57                                             ` João Távora
2019-11-07 16:04                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-07 16:09                                                 ` João Távora
2019-11-07 14:43                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-07 14:54                                             ` João Távora
2019-11-07 14:33                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-07 14:44                                         ` João Távora
2019-11-07 14:58                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-07 15:54                                             ` João Távora
2019-11-07 16:57                                               ` Drew Adams
2019-11-08 23:38                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-09  0:24                                                 ` João Távora
2019-11-09  1:53                                                   ` Drew Adams
2019-11-09 21:57                                                     ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-09 22:17                                                       ` João Távora
2019-11-09  7:30                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 11:42                                                     ` João Távora
2019-11-09 12:04                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 13:22                                                         ` João Távora
2019-11-09 16:44                                                     ` Drew Adams
2019-11-07 15:08                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-08 10:15                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-08 19:19                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-08 19:43                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 21:42                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-09  6:52                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 15:25                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-09 15:52                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 16:17                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-08 20:11                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-08 22:57                                           ` João Távora
2019-11-06 23:12                               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-05 16:31                   ` BIKESHED: completion faces João Távora
2019-11-05 22:22                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 23:11                       ` João Távora
2019-11-06  8:18                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06  8:53                           ` João Távora
2019-11-06 15:16                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 15:56                               ` João Távora
2019-11-06 10:25                           ` João Távora
2019-11-06 15:11                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 15:31                               ` João Távora
2019-11-06 15:43                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 15:48                                   ` João Távora
2019-11-06 16:01                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-06 16:20                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 21:36                               ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-07 14:25                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 22:40                                   ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-08  6:43                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 16:12                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 16:14                             ` João Távora
2019-11-06  0:24                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-05 18:36               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-05 18:51                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-05 19:16                   ` João Távora
2019-11-05 19:23                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-05 21:43                       ` João Távora
2019-11-06 16:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 16:26                           ` João Távora
2019-11-06 18:07                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 18:14                               ` João Távora
2019-11-06 18:29                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 18:48                                   ` João Távora
2019-11-06 20:51                                   ` Ergus
2019-11-07 14:08                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 14:28                                       ` João Távora
2019-11-07 14:47                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 15:00                                           ` João Távora
2019-11-07 15:40                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 16:00                                               ` João Távora
2019-11-07 17:39                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 17:53                                                   ` João Távora
2019-11-07 18:16                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 18:37                                                       ` João Távora
2019-11-07 21:07                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 21:43                                                           ` João Távora
2019-11-08  6:35                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 10:15                                                               ` João Távora
2019-11-08 14:02                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 15:09                                                                   ` João Távora
2019-11-08 15:33                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 16:01                                                                       ` João Távora
2019-11-08 16:16                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 16:27                                                                           ` João Távora
2019-11-08 17:05                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 17:21                                                                               ` João Távora
2019-11-08 19:06                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 22:49                                                                                   ` João Távora
2019-11-09  6:57                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 11:20                                                                                       ` João Távora
2019-11-09 11:51                                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 12:14                                                                                           ` João Távora
2019-11-09 12:19                                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 13:29                                                                                               ` João Távora
2019-11-09 13:52                                                                                                 ` João Távora
2019-11-09 15:31                                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 18:51                                                                                                   ` João Távora
2019-11-10  9:18                                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2019-11-14  9:45                                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 10:40                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-14 14:16                                                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 14:19                                                                                                           ` João Távora
2019-11-14 14:42                                                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 14:49                                                                                                               ` João Távora
2019-11-16 20:10                                                                                                       ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-16 23:40                                                                                                         ` João Távora
2019-11-17 17:27                                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 17:47                                                                                                             ` João Távora
2019-11-08 12:58                                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-08 13:08                                                                 ` João Távora
2019-11-08 14:07                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 20:34                               ` Drew Adams
2019-11-06 20:42                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-05 21:40                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 23:02                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-05 18:54                 ` João Távora
2019-11-05 19:07                   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-05 21:39                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 21:54                     ` João Távora
2019-11-05 21:55                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 21:54                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 21:58                   ` João Távora
2019-11-05 22:03                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-05 22:07                       ` João Távora
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2019-11-06 21:40                                   ` Drew Adams
2019-11-07 14:19                                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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