From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: intern-soft, find-face/get-face, and facep for determining faces' definedness Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:20:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20041102222006.GC20505@fencepost> References: <0whwtx5meng.fsf@rescomp.Stanford.EDU.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87k6t4rd5b.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <847aaaf204110123282bb4ddd8@mail.gmail.com> <847aaaf20411020048201a2419@mail.gmail.com> <847aaaf20411020121678a0b5c@mail.gmail.com> <87d5ywpi8v.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099434164 5462 80.91.229.6 (2 Nov 2004 22:22:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Brian Palmer , Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 02 23:22:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CP72t-00085Z-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:22:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CP7Ax-0006To-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:30:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CP7Aj-0006PO-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CP7Ah-0006OR-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CP7Ah-0006NN-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CP71q-0000kP-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CP70Y-0007vL-7x; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:20:06 -0500 Original-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d5ywpi8v.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29341 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:16667 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29341 On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:06:56PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > We also have truly anonymous temporary faces, which get > garbage collected simply by dropping them on the floor, as they never > get entered into any tables. As an aside, I've long wanted to add anonymous faces to Emacs; a cursory investigation suggests that simply allowing lisp `face vectors' to be used in a few places (skipping the name->vector lookup) would actually work. However the huge amount of backward-compatibility hair in Emacs' face machinery always makes such things a bit touch-n-go... [I don't think the name lookup efficiency is actually much of an issue though; my reason is more to avoid the necessity of naming faces.] -Miles -- I'd rather be consing.