From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Feature request] face property `raise' Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:22:50 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD6605485580@dewdfx17> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050233609 14294 80.91.224.249 (13 Apr 2003 11:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 13 13:33:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194fjj-0003iQ-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:33:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 194fkb-0006Uv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:34:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fim-00010U-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fgD-0000Fn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fec-0007To-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fZS-0006B7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 194fZS-0006GA-00; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:22:50 -0400 Original-To: "Wedler, Christoph" In-reply-to: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD6605485580@dewdfx17> (christoph.wedler@sap.com) Original-cc: ihs_4664@yahoo.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13201 A. Don't define different groups of different properties: make all properties text properties (or group all special = non-user-defined text properties together) B. Just provide one abstraction mechanism for all special properties with the ability to merge the abstract properties (like face merging). That is an interesting idea. Could you try writing a precise spec for what it would look like? One complication will be how to extend face customization to handle an unbounded set of properties. Right now there is a fixed set of face attributes.