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: Buffer-local faces Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:20:46 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040503130350.GA1929@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083623143 24805 80.91.224.253 (3 May 2004 22:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 00:25:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKlsU-0003bl-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 00:25:34 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKlsU-000058-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 00:25:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKlp2-0005TK-0y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKloX-0005Mn-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:21:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKlnr-00050G-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:21:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKlnq-0004zs-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BKlnq-0000Lj-6q; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:20:46 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <20040503130350.GA1929@fencepost> (message from Miles Bader on Mon, 3 May 2004 09:03:50 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22652 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22652 Each element is of the form: (FACE . NEW-FACE) or (FACE NEW-FACE MERGE-FACE...), which causes NEW-FACE to be used where FACE normally would. If present, MERGE-FACE... are merged during display with NEW-FACE. Wouldn't it be cleaner just to have one kind of element, (FACE REPLACEMENT-FACES...)