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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
-- 
((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x)))

  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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