From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Simplification of faces Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:00:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191362878 17424 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2007 22:07:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:07:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 00:07:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Icptp-0004BZ-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Icpta-0007KT-W5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Icpns-0004sg-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Icpnr-0004rw-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Icpnr-0004rl-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Icpnq-0002qE-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Icpn0-0008PC-3r; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:00:26 -0400 In-reply-to: X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80155 Archived-At: > 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.