From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:13 +0100 Message-ID: <52D50675.3010902@swipnet.se> References: <87bnzo9cja.fsf@gnu.org> <59B7E7FC-48D0-4737-B1BB-FFAC5BA9E07A@swipnet.se> <874n5f3162.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvozf86g.fsf@gnu.org> <87r48javwe.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnzmfjxe.fsf@gnu.org> <52D3E689.6050902@dancol.org> <8E16225F-53EF-498A-AB35-66EB9B33B859@swipnet.se> <52D43360.6050605@dancol.org> <9BD01B88-AF13-44DD-8DBE-4598BAC136DD@swipnet.se> <52D45C73.6090906@dancol.org> <874n57ar12.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389692563 21699 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2014 09:42:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Daniel Colascione , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 10:42:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W30WG-0006fX-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W30WF-0001WE-SM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:42:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W30W7-0001VD-4P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:42:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W30W0-0001cT-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:42:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailfe06.swip.net ([212.247.154.161]:35216 helo=swip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W30Vl-0001Pw-Kn; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:42:17 -0500 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 Original-Received: from hosdjarv.se (account mj138573@tele2.se [46.59.42.57] verified) by mailfe06.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 466748302; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:14 +0100 Original-Received: from jdvpro.hq.ismobile.com (unknown [176.57.193.190]) (Authenticated sender: jhd) by hosdjarv.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D32E51A0105; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:42:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <874n57ar12.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 212.247.154.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168344 Archived-At: Hi. Chong Yidong skrev 2014-01-14 09:47: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >> But I'd first like to hear Yidong's opinion on why it'd be better to >> fold the "alternate background" feature into the :foreground attribute >> rather than having it as a separate attribute. > > 1. Each aspect of a face should be controlled by one attribute, like > :height (which can take either relative or absolute heights), and > unlike :font vs :family (which has been a source of annoyance). The same can be said for :background and :stipple. Jan D.