Re: bind faces?

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Wouldn't it be useful to be able to do that? We have `let' for variables and
> `flet' (via cl.el) for functions, but nothing for faces, IIUC. (Obviously, a
> user could work with face variables, but those are not always available and
> their use is generally discouraged.)

Why exactly do you want to do this?


[FWIW, you can do it very easily with my `face remapping' patch -- it
 ends up being just a normal `let' -- but that's part of Emacs yet:

   (let ((face-remapping-alist (cons '(some-face . bold) face-remapping-alist)))
     (read-string "blah: "))
]

-Miles
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