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: bind faces? Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 11:16:59 +0900 Message-ID: References: <878xp5s9zv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147573080 1401 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2006 02:18:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 02:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 14 04:17:48 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 1Ff6Ab-0007o3-C4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 04:17:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ff6Aa-0003J6-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 22:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ff6AK-0003GX-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 22:17:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ff6AG-0003CP-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 22:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ff6AG-0003CI-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 22:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.162.200] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Ff6CL-0000eg-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 22:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id z3so720785nzf for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 19:16:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ur34nWuLoom/EgbmttP4zibAwcRNs5WlehIKG1PYbLJTwIloVmpQ15PxXm6z2wrN2wVLpoJLAbWcK9y9VkU4ic2iriQ7he0TRH48SWMIHZimCNQCIX/mg37C79YVFLaNhW7tlY6loeTvG78ozLqhCEN80xKXbuE8MneZrSvDCNw= Original-Received: by 10.36.134.5 with SMTP id h5mr2884307nzd; Sat, 13 May 2006 19:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.36.220.71 with HTTP; Sat, 13 May 2006 19:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5436f867b179b1ed 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:54417 Archived-At: On 5/14/06, Drew Adams wrote: > Why exactly do you want to do this? > > I thought I explained that. As an analogy to binding variables with `let' > and functions with `flet', we would bind faces. Why does anyone want to b= ind > variables and functions, as opposed to using `unwind-protect', assigning = new > definitions, and restoring afterward? "By analogy with" isn't a very compelling reason for a feature. What I'm asking is: "What is a real-world problem where you would need such a thing?" My impression is that faces in general reflect a more permanent sort of state, and that the idea of "binding" face definitions is a bit alien to the way they are used. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.