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: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:35 +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 1151296803 22666 80.91.229.2 (26 Jun 2006 04:40:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 26 06:40:01 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 1Fuit9-00048C-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuit9-0007ne-6D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuisv-0007mz-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuist-0007mh-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuist-0007me-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.82] (helo=mgate02.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fuj4f-0008Fd-Bu; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com (relay21 [10.29.19.50]) by mgate02.necel.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5Q41L9S006886; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:36 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:36 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id BDAE753F; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:35 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:33:40 -0400") Original-Lines: 22 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:56187 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Return non-nil if face ATTRIBUTE VALUE is relative. > > What does that mean? How is ATTRIBUTE VALUE a face? This is > incomprehensible to me. > > I don't understand it either. Can someone explain? It returns non-nil if the face attribute ATTRIBUTE is relative when it has value VALUE. "Relative" means that the value doesn't _override_ that attribute of an underlying face during face merging, but rather _modifies_ it. For most attributes the only value with that property is `unspecified'; some attributes have other relative values (for instance, with :height, floating-point numbers are relative, as they specify a scale value rather than an absolute size). -Miles -- Yo mama's so fat when she gets on an elevator it HAS to go down.