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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simplification of faces
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:00:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Icpn0-0008PC-3r@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEEEPCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

    > If you want it to change only certain attributes and leave the others
    > unchanged, you would need to call frame-attribute to get the values of
    > the other attributes, and perhaps put them into the spec you
    > construct, so as to make sure they won't be altered.

    What does "call frame-attribute" mean? I see no such function in Emacs 22.1.
    Could you please give a more concrete example?

Sorry, I should have written `face-attribute'.

    Assuming I could understand and do what you describe, why would each person
    need to do all of that, just to be able to change a face attribute? Can't we
    have an Emacs function that does exactly that, change certain attributes
    only? What was wrong with `modify-face', for that matter?

I don't mind.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30 12:54 Simplification of faces Richard Stallman
2007-09-30 15:25 ` 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 [this message]
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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