Re: face-remapping patch

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>> I've attached my face-remapping patch to this message (I needed to
>> untangle it from some other changes).
>>
>> I've used regularly in my personal emacs for many years, and in light
>> testing the patch seems to work fine against the current trunk.
>
> Looks reasonable, but could you explain what problem this solves?  Under
> what circumstances would a user or an Elisp library prefer to use
> face-remapping instead of redefining faces directly?

What I personally use it for most of the time is a little
`variable-pitch-mode' minor mode, which makes the text in the current
buffer display text using the variable-pitch face.

It's sort of a perennial feature request too ... "Can I somehow
re-define face XXX in only a single buffer?"

-Miles

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