From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:08:34 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151374137 18831 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2006 02:08:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:08:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 27 04:08:54 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 1Fv30X-0000J6-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:08:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv30X-00005J-0U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv30K-0008Vp-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv30I-0008Uz-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv30H-0008Uo-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.82] (helo=mgate02.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fv3CG-0007jo-Jp; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com (relay31 [10.29.19.54]) by mgate02.necel.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5R0M3en019333; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:08:35 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:08:34 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:08:34 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 80CB6440; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:08:34 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:17:43 -0700") Original-Lines: 17 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:56209 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > I don't think so. It isn't clear to me, even after reading it a couple of > times. It seems to me that the real problem is a lack of knowledge about how face rendering in general works. This should be solved by having a good overview of face rendering in the manual (I don't know if there is one or not), not by trying to shove that information in every function docstring that's somehow related to faces. -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?