Re: linum and AUCTeX: line number face

[Stephan Hennig <mailing_list@arcor.de>]

Stephen Berman schrieb:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 
>>> Inheriting will, of course, be overridden by any new properties.
>>> That's the whole point of it.
>>
>> I don't think I agree: the inherited `default' should only be overridden by
>> new properties set *in the linum face* and in his above example there
>> are none so there sould be no difference between those two cases and using
>> inherit is a lot cleaner.
> 
> There are indeed no difference AFAICT, and the same goes for faces
> that exhibit the problem, e.g., (copy-face 'shadow 'linum) shows it
> just as does customizing linum face to inherit from shadow face.

I didn't really understand all of the discussion and if the problem is
in linum or in Emacs.  Actually, I don't really know if (all of) you
agree there is a bug.  Is the current behaviour considered a bug or is
it intentional?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig