From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Feature request] face property `raise' Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:05:04 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855B9@dewdfx17> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052947518 28225 80.91.224.249 (14 May 2003 21:25:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 23:25:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19G3kQ-0007Kj-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:25:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19G3rz-0006Lx-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:33:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G3d8-0003GC-0E for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G3Za-00025M-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G3TO-0008JR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G3Qv-0007s4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 19G3Qu-0002ZG-00; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:05:04 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on 13 May 2003 11:22:21 +0900) Original-cc: ihs_4664@yahoo.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13879 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13879 I'm not sure why it was suggested to be marked `obsolete' anyway -- `category' is a general abstraction mechanism for text properties (and overlays), not an ad-hoc display-related property. The proposed new mechanism would also be a general abstraction mechanism; you could use it fairly easily to get the same results as you now get with `category'.