From: Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Faces: How to clear an attribute while continuing to inherit other attributes?
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:59:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOCW0DhC6_HAEqHwKpJChfhEotrCdMRo9WP4eRAKdgPKw5SkMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOCW0DiGc0FM+utRcGULzwxQ5f5UNvYY0StpcNcv81S-8dtGCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Indeed, that's how it works - correctly - for some attributes, example,
:underlin. Setting it to nil clears anything inherited, making emacs fall
back to the default.
:foreground and :background go halfway towards that behavior, providing the
ability to set to nil, but then treat it as 'unspecified.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:56 AM Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by "default foreground" here?
>
> I mean: The foreground of the face called 'default. That's what emacs
> picks the attribute from if none is matched.
> It seems that the intention of allowing face A to specify an attribute as
> nil is to /clear/ the inherited attribute (so that emacs can fall back upon
> the default for that attribute). Unfortunately, nil seems to become
> 'unspecified at the moment, which => inherit the attribute.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-10 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-10 2:42 Faces: How to clear an attribute while continuing to inherit other attributes? Dave Goel
2019-10-10 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-10 15:56 ` Dave Goel
2019-10-10 15:59 ` Dave Goel [this message]
2019-10-10 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-10 17:50 ` Dave Goel
2019-10-10 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-10 18:26 ` Dave Goel
2019-10-10 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <47578dbd-71ea-cb02-c337-96fb18af1915@lanl.gov>
[not found] ` <83k19cqvdi.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-10-11 0:56 ` Dave Goel
2019-10-11 1:13 ` Dave Goel
2019-10-11 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-11 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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