From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug in change in button.el? Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:30:44 +0200 Message-ID: <462E8514.7030103@gmail.com> References: <6rslaq65sp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <17966.33559.852546.313154@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177453865 28113 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 22:31:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 25 00:31:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HgTXL-0003V4-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgTct-00041V-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgTcq-00041Q-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgTco-00040l-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgTco-00040i-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:36:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgTXC-0003YT-Qi; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:63763 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HgTXA-0007A2-8z; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:30:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <17966.33559.852546.313154@farnswood.snap.net.nz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000735-2, 2007-04-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HgTXA-0007A2-8z. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HgTXA-0007A2-8z 208580969e876663ee02c02a707de9f4 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70007 Archived-At: Nick Roberts wrote: > > > Do you mean the change to inherit from `link'? > > > I thought we did not want buttons to look just like links. > > > Also, what the definition of `link' does is use color and underlining > > > together, although each one of them works only when supported. > > > > Then I guess this change is better. The (type pc) test can be removed > > if MS-DOS correctly answers the (supports) question. > > But this seems a bit tortuous. If we want to do this, button might as well > just inherit from the underline face. The default button usage is AFAICS a link. Then it seems natural to me that the default face for button is link. We discussed that before, but I think it was deemed "to close to the release" (though I do not remember the reason for sure any more). However if any change is going to be made now I propose what I said above.