From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Glenn Morris' <rgm@gnu.org>, 'Dan Nicolaescu' <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org,
'Roland Winkler' <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: faces and face variables
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:02:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlmamzj7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002c01c915f2$18dc9cf0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:43:09 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> But I don't agree that face variables are or should be "deprecated" or that all
> uses of face variables are necessarily "fossils".
99% of "face variables" in existing code are not used the way you
described, but instead are pointless frippery.
As richard said, there can be cases where a variable referring to a face
is called for -- but there are almost _always_ considered exceptions to
any given rule; that does not make the rule wrong for the general case.
-Miles
--
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of
a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however,
is a most useful work.
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2008-09-13 16:03 ` faces and face variables Roland Winkler
2008-09-13 18:09 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-13 19:27 ` Roland Winkler
2008-09-13 22:43 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-14 17:02 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-09-14 19:04 ` Drew Adams
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2008-12-29 6:33 ` Proced's display/handling of process trees: request for feedback Roland Winkler
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