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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overriding inherited face attributes
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:18:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831s75fa5q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efb51h18.fsf@rub.de> (message from Stephen Berman on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:13:39 +0100)

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:13:39 +0100
> 
> >> (insert (propertize "hello" 'face '(:inherit (:foreground "orange")
> >> :foreground "red")))
> >> 
> >> makes the face display as red, and this seems to conflict with the above
> >> documentation.
> >
> > It doesn't, because ':foreground "red"' is not the "underlying face".
> 
> That occurred to me, but then I have to conclude I really don't
> understand the doc, according to my reading of which the `inherit'
> property should have higher priority by virtue of being earlier in the
> list.

If someone has concrete proposals for how to make the documentation of
these aspects better, I'm open to suggestions.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-28 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-27 20:18 Overriding inherited face attributes Boris Buliga
2018-11-27 21:33 ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-28  6:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-28 12:24     ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-28 13:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-28 13:13         ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-28 16:18           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-11-28 20:01             ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-28 20:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-28 21:34                 ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-29  7:14                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-29 17:30                     ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-28 21:44                 ` Boris Buliga
2018-11-29  7:08                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-28  7:39   ` Boris Buliga
2018-11-28  7:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-28  8:42       ` Boris Buliga

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