From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: About the :distant-foreground face attribute
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:55:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnzo9cja.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
What is the purpose of this face attribute, newly introduced for 24.4?
It seems to be unused in Emacs itself. Is there a concrete example of
this being needed in external packages or themes?
First of all, the name :distant-foreground is not intuitive. What does
"distant" mean in this context?
Also, this feature has one ugly consequence. Previously, the `default'
face must have all its face attributes specified, but now its
:distant-foreground face is unspecified.
Besides that, the implementation seems rather incomplete. The Customize
interface, `modify-face', `face-spec-reset-face', and other parts of
Emacs haven't been updated for the existence of this face attribute.
It's unclear what functions like `face-foreground' should now do if
there's a :distant-foreground.
This all sounds like an invitation for more bugs. In my opinion, this
feature is a bad idea.
next reply other threads:[~2014-01-07 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-07 12:55 Chong Yidong [this message]
2014-01-07 15:00 ` About the :distant-foreground face attribute Jan Djärv
2014-01-07 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-07 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-07 18:09 ` Joel Mccracken
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2014-01-07 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-07 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83zjn7r4z3.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-01-07 19:06 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-07 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-07 21:57 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-08 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-08 5:24 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-08 9:35 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-08 9:52 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-08 10:10 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-08 14:49 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-08 16:37 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-08 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-08 16:57 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-08 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-08 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-09 16:15 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-09 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-09 17:07 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-09 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-09 18:21 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-09 22:25 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-09 22:48 ` David Engster
2014-01-12 11:14 ` David Engster
2014-01-12 11:40 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-12 12:21 ` David Engster
2014-01-12 12:56 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-12 13:07 ` David Engster
2014-01-12 13:17 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-12 20:14 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-12 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-12 22:07 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-13 0:57 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-12 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 4:14 ` chad
2014-01-09 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-09 17:22 ` David Engster
2014-01-09 17:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-09 17:50 ` Jan D.
2014-01-09 20:58 ` Darren Hoo
2014-01-09 21:17 ` David Engster
2014-01-09 22:29 ` Darren Hoo
2014-01-09 22:25 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-09 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-09 17:39 ` Josh
2014-01-09 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-09 17:49 ` Jan D.
2014-01-13 13:13 ` [PATCH] " Daniel Colascione
2014-01-13 16:27 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-13 16:33 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-13 18:41 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-13 21:29 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-13 21:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-13 23:01 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-13 23:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 1:32 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-14 1:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14 19:32 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-14 2:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 19:32 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-14 22:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 0:31 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-15 0:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 3:07 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-15 3:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 4:59 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-15 5:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 5:39 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-15 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 4:50 ` Yuri Khan
2014-01-15 7:50 ` Jan D.
2014-01-15 7:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 8:17 ` Jan D.
2014-01-15 17:23 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-13 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14 0:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 1:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14 2:41 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 8:47 ` Chong Yidong
2014-01-14 9:42 ` Jan D.
2014-01-14 19:32 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-14 7:47 ` Jan D.
2014-01-14 8:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 9:34 ` Jan D.
2014-01-14 10:44 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 11:44 ` Jan D.
2014-01-14 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14 18:06 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-14 18:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 18:51 ` John Yates
2014-01-14 22:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14 18:47 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 20:01 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-14 20:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 22:05 ` [PATCH] " Jan Djärv
2014-01-14 22:14 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 6:33 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-15 8:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 9:25 ` Jan D.
2014-01-15 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14 20:39 ` [PATCH] " Daniel Colascione
2014-01-14 21:58 ` [PATCH] " Jan Djärv
2014-01-14 22:06 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-15 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 4:25 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 6:39 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-15 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 20:05 ` Josh
2014-01-15 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 21:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 21:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-15 21:31 ` John Yates
2014-01-15 22:11 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-15 23:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-07 22:50 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-08 3:13 ` Darren Hoo
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2014-01-09 22:27 ` Drew Adams
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