From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default font 'default have no corresponding variable Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <47B985B2.1070505@gmail.com> <87k5l2o0er.fsf@catnip.gol.com><47B9AB51.7070002@gmail.com> <008301c87373$eadf38b0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203525879 25289 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 16:44:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 17:45:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRs46-0002Mp-7H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:45:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs3b-0003ke-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs3V-0003jr-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs3T-0003jX-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs3T-0003jU-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRs3T-0002H4-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JRs3S-0005tr-Tj; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <008301c87373$eadf38b0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:89702 Archived-At: The use case I see, which, again, is not the usual case, is when you want to make it easy for code to temporarily use a particular face. It is very easy for some code to dynamically bind a face variable and cause subsequently executed code to use that face. Getting the same effect with faces (without a face variable) can make for uglier code, IMO. I agree that this would be a good reason to have such a variable. Whether there are such cases, I don't know.