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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffer-local faces
Date: 04 May 2004 10:10:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1brl4z3om.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040504140241.GB23709@fencepost>

>> I'm not sure what's a useful generalization, maybe a "filtered inheritance"
>> where you can specify which attributes are inherited from a given parent.
> Yeah, the question is what's a good way to specify it?  It's always tempting
> to just throw in lisp code, but we've seen the messes that gets us into with
> the signal handlers &c...

Try -DSYNC_INPUT ;-)
Seriously, tho, the problem is not signal handlers (those are fixed
by -DSYNC_INPUT or by BLOCK_INPUT), but execution of Lisp code from within
the display engine (which can lead to crashes if the Lisp code modifies the
current buffer or does other such funny things).


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-04 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-03 13:03 Buffer-local faces Miles Bader
2004-05-03 13:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-03 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-03 23:19   ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04  5:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-04 13:27     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 20:07     ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-03 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-03 23:27   ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04  5:45     ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-04  8:22       ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 13:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 14:02           ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 14:10             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-05-05 20:20               ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 20:20             ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-06 13:55               ` Miles Bader
2004-05-05 20:20           ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 20:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-05  8:09         ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 20:08       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04  9:18     ` David Kastrup
2004-05-04  9:57       ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04  8:40         ` Kim F. Storm
2004-05-04  9:59       ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-05 20:20         ` Richard Stallman

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