From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Simplification of faces Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:25:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191601607 3023 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2007 16:26:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 18:26:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Idq03-0005WO-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:26:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Idpzy-00075G-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Idpzv-000750-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Idpzs-00074c-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Idpzs-00074Z-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Idpzp-0002PK-8A; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:25:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l95GPk3O018489; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsmt250.oracle.com (rcsmt250.oracle.com [148.87.90.195]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id l95AXK1a002593; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:25:45 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-74-135.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3270332611191601543; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:25:43 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80299 Archived-At: > What does that mean? Will you (still) provide such a function? > > I would not mind if a new `modify-face' function were added > which operated in terms of `face-spec-set'. If someone writes it > and does it right, I'd be glad for it to be installed. You are proposing a change that has as consequence removal of this feature in its current form. It makes sense that you take the responsibility to make sure it gets reimplemented (in some form). FWIW, I, for one, would mind if this feature, available since the early 90s, were no longer available. For me, that would be a showstopper.