On 28 May 2008, at 14:21, Miles Bader wrote:

> David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
>> Okay, not to criticize your remapping, but just for the sake of
>> argument, here's a possible alternative:
>
> How would user customization work?

I was looking at this from a programmer's point of view (who would  
provide a package).
 From a user's perspective, the local faces could be defined just like  
local variables are set within files.
Ideally there would be a function to add all local faces (as a  
comment) to the end of a buffer.
There should be a function called `customize-local-face'.

> Well the implementation could certainly be improved, but adding  
> support
> for non-global faces certainly won't simplify things!

Certainly not for Emacs, but for anyone using the API that you're  
creating, buffer-local faces would be simple to understand and more  
transparent than another extra variable that remaps some faces.
What would the user customization look like in that case?
E.g. when a user does M-x customize-face default, would they be  
customizing the remapped (local) face or the global one?

- D