From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New custom faces for rmail.el Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87skzzf992.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87d4r23j4p.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87myq66548.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202822507 29878 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 13:21:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:21:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Guerry Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 14:22:09 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 1JOv5I-0004Gk-1f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:22:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOv4o-000572-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOv4l-00056w-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOv4j-00056U-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOv4j-00056Q-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:29 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOv4b-0002YX-V0; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:22 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAGMssUdMCpK7/2dsb2JhbACsSno X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,340,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="14343707" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 12 Feb 2008 08:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.146.187]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id SPH98418; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 259A97FDB; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:21:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87myq66548.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien Guerry's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:49:59 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:88861 Archived-At: > But AFAICS there are many places where we have both mistakes: 1) have a > face *and* a variable, and 2) name them with the *-face suffix. Having a variable is not necessarily an error. In the case of font-lock, this was done originally so as to allow font-lock faces to be changed on a per-buffer basis (by making the variable buffer-local and making it point to different faces). Until Miles installs his changes that add the ability to change faces on a per-buffer basis, this is still useful. As for the -face name, this is historical and should probably be changed, tho when we changed the others we specifically avoided changing the font-lock ones. Stefan