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: Tue, 04 May 2004 16:08:15 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040503130350.GA1929@fencepost> <20040503232700.GB9451@fencepost> <87hduwyccu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083701980 4122 80.91.224.253 (4 May 2004 20:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 20:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 22:19:25 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 1BL6Nx-0004dT-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 22:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BL6Nw-0000xA-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 22:19:24 +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 1BL6Kx-0003xa-OA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL6Ge-0002VZ-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:11:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL6G5-0002FF-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BL6D9-00012M-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:08:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BL6D9-0003Qh-Eb; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:08:15 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87hduwyccu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 04 May 2004 08:45:21 +0300) 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:22740 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22740 Then subtracting face attributes would be useful too. I think this is much added complexity without much added benefit. If there are specific attributes you'd like to override, you can do that by merging a face which has different values for those attributes. That does more or less the same job without the added complexity.