From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bind faces?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 09:52:52 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xp5s9zv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MEEKKIABFKKDFJMPIOEBGEHCDBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 13 May 2006 10:54:24 -0700")
"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
--
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it
has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-14 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-13 17:54 bind faces? Drew Adams
2006-05-13 18:07 ` Chong Yidong
2006-05-13 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-14 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-14 0:52 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-05-14 1:02 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-14 2:16 ` Miles Bader
2006-05-14 3:13 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-14 4:10 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-14 2:33 ` Miles Bader
2006-05-14 13:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-14 14:32 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-14 14:46 ` Miles Bader
2006-05-14 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-14 17:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-14 18:43 ` Drew Adams
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