From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simplification of faces
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:29:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejg63hit.fsf@maru.md5i.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Icpn0-0008PC-3r@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 02 Oct 2007 18\:00\:26 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > If you want it to change only certain attributes and leave the others
> > unchanged, you would need to call frame-attribute to get the values of
> > the other attributes, and perhaps put them into the spec you
> > construct, so as to make sure they won't be altered.
>
> What does "call frame-attribute" mean? I see no such function in
> Emacs 22.1. Could you please give a more concrete example?
>
> Sorry, I should have written `face-attribute'.
>
> Assuming I could understand and do what you describe, why would
> each person need to do all of that, just to be able to change a
> face attribute? Can't we have an Emacs function that does
> exactly that, change certain attributes only? What was wrong
> with `modify-face', for that matter?
>
> I don't mind.
I am looking at `face-attribute', and it looks like it would be easy
enough to rewrite `set-face-attribute' to use `face-spec-set' and
`face-attribute' instead of the current
`set-face-attribute-internal'. Would this be a reasonable change?
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-07 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-30 12:54 Simplification of faces Richard Stallman
2007-09-30 15:25 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-01 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-30 23:53 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-01 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-01 18:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-02 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-02 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-02 22:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-04 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-05 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-05 16:25 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-07 18:29 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2007-10-09 1:14 ` Richard Stallman
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