From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Overriding inherited face attributes Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 08:19:20 +0200 Message-ID: <83sgzlg1w7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pnuqfboc.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543385861 7147 195.159.176.226 (28 Nov 2018 06:17:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:17:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 28 07:17:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRtAG-0001mE-DS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:17:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46194 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRtCN-0002ve-0r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:19:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59556) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRtBp-0002vL-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRtBm-0001Cw-13 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRtBl-0001Co-Sm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4297 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gRtBl-00067s-Gb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:19:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pnuqfboc.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:33:23 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118783 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:33:23 +0100 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > In (info "(elisp) Special Properties") it says this: "The value of the > [`face'] property can be... A list of faces... Faces occurring earlier > in the list have higher priority." And in (info "(elisp) Face > Attributes") it says: "Attributes from inherited faces are merged into > the face like an underlying face would be, with higher priority than > underlying faces." Whether this implies the above observed behavior is > not clear to me. Is it really not clear? What part(s) make(s) the above text not clear about the order in which the face attributes are applied?