From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about display engine Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 05:43:13 +0300 Message-ID: <8336i88lry.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190807005411.qfzzpz5cjrajbwn2@Ergus> <83o911aukn.fsf@gnu.org> <20190807153220.ssijgjxnf6dszz45@Ergus> <83k1bpasic.fsf@gnu.org> <20190807155738.yviofsumjjhqueci@Ergus> <83imr9ar9f.fsf@gnu.org> <0975890b-37b4-428d-f6e5-5dcf894fb6be@gmx.at> <83ftmdapxm.fsf@gnu.org> <20190808083804.ta3evocyb4hirywj@Ergus> <83wofna785.fsf@gnu.org> <83h86p8dov.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="197368"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 11 04:43:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdpY-000pFn-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 04:43:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38682 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdpW-0006Iz-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdpS-0006It-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdpS-0005XS-8p; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4177 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdpR-0005HR-Ji; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:43:30 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 10 Aug 2019 19:04:13 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239318 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 19:04:13 -0400 > Cc: martin rudalics , spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > IOW, the problem with the attribute-level idea is that it will affect > > those attributes regardless of the face from which they came. > > Per-face indeed sounds like a better option than per-attribute. > Furthermore, it should be much easier to add it in a clean way to the > current system. > > Of course per-face per-attribute would be even more flexible, but I'm > not completely convinced it's worth the trouble. I later came to the conclusion that even per-face is not really workable, due to face merging. WDYT?