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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID c1899ceecdc515e94c5c514c87fbefae; Sun, 14 Jan 2024 13:44:59 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <838r4sfeem.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2024 11:33:05 +0200") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.22010 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:278210 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > There are faces that Emacs imposes that are not controlled by > packages. For example, the buffer name on the mode line is displayed > in bold, and changing that is not easy. Why cannot we allow users to > tweak this issue by providing a simple variable? What are the > downsides? It can't be guaranteed that this variable will work, because Emacs is not the only program synthesizing bold variants from fonts that don't incorporate them. Moreover, little-used options that control these very particular aspects of our font display tend to fall into disrepair: for instance, Vvertical_centering_font_regexp didn't function on any system besides X, until yours truly implemented it for Android, a state of affairs that remained unnoticed for upwards of a decade.