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: +face-remapping-20040505-0.patch Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 20:00:51 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874qqwrycm.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <20040505221256.GB7789@fencepost> <20040508013940.GB6489@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084147541 27736 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 00:05:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 00:05:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 02:05:34 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 1BMyIY-0001Xl-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 02:05:34 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMyIY-0008LF-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 02:05:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMyI5-00018B-VK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 20:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMyFn-0008KT-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 20:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMyEF-000680-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 20:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMyDz-0005tn-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 20:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.33) id 1BMyDz-0001Hg-6Q; Sun, 09 May 2004 20:00:51 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 09 May 2004 12:42:11 -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:23003 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23003 I still think that face-remapping should rely on face-inheritance rather than allow mapping a face to several (merged) faces. I am not quite sure what change you are proposing. If you are saying that the feature of remapping X to (Y Z) should be removed, and instead the user should have to define W as (Y Z) then remap X to W, I think that is a loss of convenience with nearly zero gain in simplicity.