From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Buffer-local faces Date: 05 May 2004 16:43:09 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040503130350.GA1929@fencepost> <20040503232700.GB9451@fencepost> <87hduwyccu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040504082236.GA21306@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083791378 26500 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 21:09:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 23:09:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLTdu-0003OI-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:09:26 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLTdu-0004BD-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:09:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTdd-0007zv-KG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTHs-0004Ex-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTEv-0002e1-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTEW-0002Bj-HS; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FE22114F; Wed, 5 May 2004 16:43:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1B5B28C6AE; Wed, 5 May 2004 16:43:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-1.524, requis 5, BAYES_01 -1.52) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22817 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22817 > A related question is how to make a face that uses explicitly the > default font. E.g. let's say my header-line face uses helvetica font > and I want to put text in the header-line that uses the same font as > the default font. Right now, the best I could come up with is to > extract the font of `default' and pass it to `myface', but that's done > "statically". > Complications like these are expensive in terms of the ease of > understanding Emacs. If we can do without them, let's do without them. Agreed. I'm looking for a simple and generic solution. Haven't found it yet, Stefan