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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: faces and face variables
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:09:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jtzlmbhq92.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18635.58437.271555.722429@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:03:17 +0200")

"Roland Winkler" wrote:

> dired.el defines both the faces it uses (like dired-header) and it has
> face variables like dired-header-face. Is this strategy still
> appropriate for new code? Or is it better to use the faces only?

E.g.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01589.html

    ...variables pointing to faces are generally deprecated unless
    maybe they're used in font-lock rules where avoiding the ' can be
    marginally convenient.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01660.html

    Maybe we should work harder to document the fact that we do not
    want such variables.

Echoing your suggestion.

> Font-lock also has such variables, and the code contains the comment
> that these variables

Don't use font-lock as an example, it's a law unto itself for
historical reasons.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-13 18:09 UTC|newest]

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2008-09-13 16:03                 ` faces and face variables Roland Winkler
2008-09-13 18:09                   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-09-13 19:27                     ` Roland Winkler
2008-09-13 22:43                       ` Drew Adams
2008-09-14 17:02                         ` Miles Bader
2008-09-14 19:04                           ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <18775.34703.848628.238267@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
2008-12-29  6:33   ` Proced's display/handling of process trees: request for feedback Roland Winkler

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