From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: custom-themes BAD? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:54:52 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393350911 892 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2014 17:55:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:55:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 25 18:55:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1WIMDu-0004Cn-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WIMDt-0005dD-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:55:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="189748f827f5005aa08ac3cba2786117"; logging-data="19403"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fZqIf36v2qAjS4hMxUPnanhfEmSMbegY=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:43yN8VjmMwjXcZlQSFQIm8QWG6s= sha1:/WYfsuykh82PnC573JZXFpdXAiQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203928 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96197 Archived-At: Joost Kremers writes: > Dan Espen wrote: >> All the packages should be using font-lock-* faces as far as >> possible. Then the themes can all set the same set of faces >> much more easily. > > Better yet, packages should define their own faces but use the :inherit > property to derive them from Emacs' standard faces. That way, users can > customize faces in some mode/package and use the default ones in others, > if they prefer. I was not aware of any :inherit property, but that sounds perfect. Still there should be enough faces defined that gnus, and all the other packages can do there thing. -- Dan Espen