From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Combining face and map stuff Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:21:46 -0400 Message-ID: <87lj6gsgyt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286036528 7746 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 16:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:22:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 18:22:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P24qY-0002X6-Lb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P24qX-0004Eo-57 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48482 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P24qP-0004DN-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P24qK-00063T-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.103]:48433) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P24qK-00063P-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-111-197-225.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.111.197.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o92GLlWA005149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93718C018; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:21:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:21:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131249 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > It would often be convenient to say "this region should be in bold" and > "this partially overlapping region should also be italic", and so on. > I've been looking in the Emacs Lisp manual, but I can't find any utility > functions for doing stuff like that. They all seem to start with a face > with some properties that you apply to a text, which isn't really what I > want. So I would kinda of like... a function that took a face, and > then "combined" it with any faces that were already in the region. Easiest way is probably to use overlay faces.