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From: Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@iglou.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, no-spam@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Idea: Allow faces to have text-like properties
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:02:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020305140242.B7850@iglou.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203010124.g211OPn05737@rum.cs.yale.edu>; from monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:24:25PM -0500

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:24:25PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I don't think that faces should specify general text properties.
> > But it seems reasonable for font lock to be able to attach
> > other properties (including `category').
> 
> This feature is already implemented (recently, by yours truly):
> 
> ** font-lock can manage arbitrary text-properties beside `face'.
> *** the FACENAME returned in font-lock-keywords can be a list
> of the form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...) so you can set
> other properties than `face'.
> *** font-lock-extra-managed-props can be set to make sure those extra
> properties are automatically cleaned up by font-lock.

Has anyone taken interest in developing a package to utilize these text
properties to provide "invisible" (from the user's viewpoint) faces?  I
think it's a great idea.

Thanks
Ted

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-28 10:25 Idea: Allow faces to have text-like properties Kim F. Storm
2002-02-28 12:05 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-02-28 13:15   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-01  1:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-01  1:11 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-01  1:24   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 19:02     ` Teodor Zlatanov [this message]

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