From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: alpha support for colors Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:45:10 +0200 Message-ID: <83objj7t21.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wqy8n2tk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351619157 1943 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2012 17:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: aaditya sood Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 18:46:06 2012 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 1TTFt6-0008FA-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:46:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTFsx-00051M-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTFsp-0004jm-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTFsl-00008F-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:40364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTFsl-000087-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MCP00B00VW05P00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:44:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MCP00AS4VYWYC90@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:44:57 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:154590 Archived-At: > From: aaditya sood > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:37:07 +0000 (UTC) > > We'd want to do a composition of all the faces that exist for a > particular character, taking into account things like alpha values. What do you mean by "composition of all the faces"? Why "all"? > I think a good use case is things like flymake error faces. I want my > error lines to be more "reddish" while still retaining the original > font lock highlighting. How is this different from changing the color of the face to be more "reddish"? > However I'd like to discuss some of the design issues, or where to > start hacking beforehand. Then please tell more.