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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Faces: How to clear an attribute while continuing to inherit other attributes?
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:37:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <835zkvr82o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOCW0Dj+NWvt67ydc0_isvuB8WE=u=xSwv2mJc_o+2rZpv4Qbw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Dave Goel on Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:13:51 -0400)

> From: Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:13:51 -0400
> Cc: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
> 
> If this were implemented, I'd also want 'clear to follow normal precedence rules. For example, if a region has 3
> faces, and the first face resolves to 'clear, then the final attribute is 'clear no matter what the other two faces
> say, and no matter what any ancestor faces say. And, since the final, chased attribute resolves to 'clear,
> emacs would look up the value from 'default, which always provides a value for every attribute. 

This is against how Emacs merges faces.  But feel free to file a
feature request via report-emacs-bug, maybe someone will find a way to
do it.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-11  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-10  2:42 Faces: How to clear an attribute while continuing to inherit other attributes? Dave Goel
2019-10-10  8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-10 15:56   ` Dave Goel
2019-10-10 15:59     ` Dave Goel
2019-10-10 17:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-10 17:50       ` Dave Goel
2019-10-10 18:07         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-10 18:26           ` Dave Goel
2019-10-10 18:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <47578dbd-71ea-cb02-c337-96fb18af1915@lanl.gov>
     [not found]             ` <83k19cqvdi.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-10-11  0:56               ` Dave Goel
2019-10-11  1:13                 ` Dave Goel
2019-10-11  8:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-11  8:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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