From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Simplification of faces
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:54:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IbyK3-0005Du-11@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
I am thinking of essentially eliminating the face attributes as a way
to control what a face looks like. Programs would use only `defface'
and `face-spec-set'.
In addition, a spec given in `face-spec-set' would totally replace
whatever spec was previously given for the same face using the
`defface' or `face-spec-set'. Thus, the appearance information for a
face would consist of a single Lisp datum, plus X resources.
(Inheritance from other faces would still occur.)
I've checked all the uses of `face-spec-set' outside of custom and
faces.el. It seems they would not need to be changed.
However, this would require rewriting the code that calls
`set-face-attribute' and the older functions such as
`set-face-foreground' that set single attributes. There are only
about 8 packages in Emacs which do so, so it would not be a big job.
However, there may be some other programs that users use which still
rely on this feature.
What do people think?
next reply other threads:[~2007-09-30 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-30 12:54 Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-09-30 15:25 ` Simplification of faces Jason Rumney
2007-10-01 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-30 23:53 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-01 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-01 18:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-02 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-02 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-02 22:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-04 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-05 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-05 16:25 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-07 18:29 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2007-10-09 1:14 ` Richard Stallman
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