From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:58:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bnzo9cja.fsf@gnu.org> <8E16225F-53EF-498A-AB35-66EB9B33B859@swipnet.se> <52D43360.6050605@dancol.org> <9BD01B88-AF13-44DD-8DBE-4598BAC136DD@swipnet.se> <52D45C73.6090906@dancol.org> <52D4EBA9.8050802@swipnet.se> <52D4F2C2.8080800@dancol.org> <52D504A7.80104@swipnet.se> <52D514FF.7010404@dancol.org> <52D52312.6070106@swipnet.se> <52D58632.3010106@dancol.org> <381DEBDC-71D8-4FAC-BA55-897FEC73A2FC@swipnet.se> <52D5A072.5010508@dancol.org> <064CFFB5-6E50-40D5-B2CB-2BECC656D93F@swipnet.se> <83txd545n7.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvop4265.fsf@gnu.org> <837ga13zh2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389830330 14180 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 23:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, dancol@dancol.org, cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 00:58:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3aMJ-0000ct-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:58:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3aMI-0004gh-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3aM9-0004gY-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3aM2-00029r-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:58:45 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:34911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3aLm-000278-Np; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:58:22 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoyj/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoyj/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="45062918" Original-Received: from 76-10-140-163.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.140.163]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 15 Jan 2014 18:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D66396029E; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:58:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:43:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168509 Archived-At: >> Why "filter"? Is it supposed to filter something? I think it really comes from Unix shells's notion of a "filter". Maybe it's not a filter in the usual sense, but within the context of the GNU system, I don't think it's that far fetched. In any case I see it's not very popular, so my guess was probably wrong, Stefan