From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: definition lines in Info - 1) link, 2) highlight Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:56:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <85psf190hv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155679031 5043 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2006 21:57:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 23:57:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GD6ts-0006mZ-QI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:56:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GD6ts-0007FP-CT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:56:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GD6tf-0007EU-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:56:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GD6tc-0007D7-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:56:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GD6tc-0007D1-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:56:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1GD6zj-0002nT-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k7FLuMZj012533 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-81-31.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.81.31]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k7FLuLdM012678 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:56:21 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <85psf190hv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:58418 Archived-At: > > I think it could be a lot simpler. Just add a loop to > > Info-fontify-node which would search for that regexp and > > apply some faces to the parts that match. > > Introducing new faces is never simple. > > It doesn't need to use new faces. Surely there is some existing > font lock face that would be usable. > > Faces are like global variables - user options. You wouldn't think > of "reusing" some user option that happened to have a default value > of t or nil or 100 that you were after, instead of defining a new > user option that had the same default value - because customizing > one might not be appropriate for the uses of the other. The same is > true of faces. [Rest of lecture deleted] Uhm, Drew? There is a slight probability that Richard has some passing acquaintance with faces. Instead of lecturing him, it might be smarter to ask for an explanation if you don't get his point. Feel better now David? Good. You be smart and ask for an explanation of what the wise words mean; I'll be stupid and disagree with his point. Progress by exegesis or dialectics? Sorry to blaspheme in your eyes, but... Richard is (shudder) human, and is not always right. Please don't assume that disagreeing with Richard means not understanding his point. Likewise, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Marx, Dylan, and the rest. As to *your* technical point in this discussion: =? - Drew, infidel, AND as RMS-reverent as unnamable high holier-than-thous