From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Buffer-local faces
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 05:57:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040504095707.GA9691@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x51xm0bleq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:18:21AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> I am uncomfortable about the whole change. And the reason has to do
> with the feature freeze. Now you may argue that the change is not so
> intrusive as to be likely to trigger new bugs, but that's beside the
> point.
I said nothing about the feature freeze. I did not post my patch to `sneak
in under the wire' of the freeze, I posted it because I (1) happened to have
been working on it, and (2) came up with something nice.
> So I think we should first try to resolve what the perceived problem
> is, what extensions or generalizations of this problem should also be
> solvable, and what would be the most logical, consistent and useful
> way to tackle it.
The patch is in reaction to various past mailing list dicussions; usually
the specific functionality requested is `how can I have a buffer-specific
default/mode-line face' (it always seems to be those two faces).
Anyway, that's what _I_ want to do with it.
> It just appears that a buffer-local replacement list is a kludge for
> avoiding a more general scheme of context-dependent faces (probably
> related to the XEmacs locale/specifier stuff), and maybe other things.
I don't think it's a kludge at all, it's an elegant way of leveraging emacs'
very flexible variable mechanism to achieve the goal -- not only is it almost
trivial to implement, but it would seem to fit very well with the way emacs
modes work.
Perhaps xemacs has a better way of doing it, I don't know -- I'm afraid I'm
not familiar with xemacs in recent years.
-Miles
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-03 13:03 Buffer-local faces Miles Bader
2004-05-03 13:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-03 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-03 23:19 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-04 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-03 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-03 23:27 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 5:45 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-04 8:22 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 14:02 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-05 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-06 13:55 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-05 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-05 8:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 9:18 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-04 9:57 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-05-04 8:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-05-04 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-05 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
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