From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: definition lines in Info - 1) link, 2) highlight
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:01:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85psf190hv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMMEIICKAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:57:46 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > I think it could be a lot simpler. Just add a loop to
> > Info-fontify-node which would search for that regexp and
> > apply some faces to the parts that match.
>
> Introducing new faces is never simple.
>
> It doesn't need to use new faces. Surely there is some existing
> font lock face that would be usable.
>
> Faces are like global variables - user options. You wouldn't think
> of "reusing" some user option that happened to have a default value
> of t or nil or 100 that you were after, instead of defining a new
> user option that had the same default value - because customizing
> one might not be appropriate for the uses of the other. The same is
> true of faces.
[Rest of lecture deleted]
Uhm, Drew? There is a slight probability that Richard has some
passing acquaintance with faces. Instead of lecturing him, it might
be smarter to ask for an explanation if you don't get his point.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-11 15:16 definition lines in Info - 1) link, 2) highlight Drew Adams
2006-08-11 19:24 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-12 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-12 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-12 21:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-13 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-13 14:10 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-13 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-15 2:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-15 14:57 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-15 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-15 20:05 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-15 21:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-08-15 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-15 22:49 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-15 23:24 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-16 6:33 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-13 17:33 ` Drew Adams
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