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: 04 May 2004 10:10:54 -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> <20040504140241.GB23709@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083680087 6526 80.91.224.253 (4 May 2004 14:14:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 14:14:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 16:14:37 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 1BL0gu-0008QR-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:14:36 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BL0gu-0000yh-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:14:36 +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 1BL0fa-0000Dl-3S for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 10:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL0ep-0000CD-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 10:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL0dM-0007YF-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 10:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.166] (helo=simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BL0dL-0007W1-IK; Tue, 04 May 2004 10:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.local ([67.71.116.220]) by simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040504141054.YGUZ6553.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.local>; Tue, 4 May 2004 10:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.local (Postfix, from userid 502) id BED3217C708; Tue, 4 May 2004 10:10:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20040504140241.GB23709@fencepost> Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:22712 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22712 >> 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