From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Combining face and map stuff
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:41:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1P5zhj-0003ju-FX@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpqvfjh5i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:23:57 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:23:57 -0400
>
> > Let's say we have a buffer, in which both package foo and package bar
> > defined different faces for the same piece of text. Which one of them
> > will be displayed, and how would the display engine know to choose it?
>
> Internally, one of them sets the property (foo . face) to <face1>, the
> other one sets the property (bar . face) to <face2>, and when these are
> set, the `face' property gets set to (<face1> <face2>). The display
> engine only looks at the `face' property, just as before.
So it's just a convenience feature, to avoid something like
get existing text property value
merge with another value
put it back with add-text-property
in every package?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-13 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-02 14:21 Combining face and map stuff Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-02 16:21 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-02 16:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-03 2:04 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-03 4:16 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-03 13:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-03 23:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-04 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-04 9:03 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-04 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-05 0:12 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-05 23:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-06 3:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-07 7:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-07 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-07 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-12 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-12 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-13 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-10-13 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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