From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Referencing defface faces in custom faces... Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 04:52:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87614h1cwm.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439607297 16596 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2015 02:54:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 02:54:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 04:54:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZQRcL-0000M9-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 04:54:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQRcF-0005f1-HL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQRc4-0005et-Qf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQRc1-0006Xl-KR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46241) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQRc1-0006Xh-Dd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQRbz-00004q-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 04:54:23 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-246.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 04:54:23 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-246.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 04:54:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-246.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dMxye8H4ZOByFixCvaTxwePKeJI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106605 Archived-At: Stuart Hungerford writes: > I'm creating a custom theme with > custom-theme-set-faces and I'd like to factor out > the face definitions it uses into defface macro > calls where I can make use of the :inherits option > to derive a family of related faces: > > (defface light-text-face '((t :family "Source Code > Pro" :foundry "nil" :height 281 :weight extra-light > :width extra-condensed :background "#040404" > :foreground "#f4f4f4")) "") > > (defface ;; other faces using :inherit > > (custom-theme-set-faces 'pastels `(default ;; > reference light-text-face here ... > > What's the idiomatic way of referencing the faces > created by the defface macro in custom-set-faces or > am I going about this in the wrong way? I have something similar: faces, `custom-set-faces', and a macro ("define-color-face") that simplifies setup. It might help you but I wouldn't down a paleo-bottle of poison it will: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/faces.el -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573