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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'David Koppelman' <koppel@ece.lsu.edu>, 13686@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13686: hi-yellow vs. hi-lock-1
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:35:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7gluv8yk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7BC00EAA1AF8466D8F9C17B3CA4E82B8@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:33:24 -0800")

> The main point is that it makes little sense for a face, which is
> a variable thingy (changeable, customizable), to have a name that
> suggests otherwise, i.e., suggests that it has some _particular_,
> constant quality.

If the user sets the hi-yellow face to red, she gets what she deserves.

> The face name should reflect what the face is for - the kind of
> highlighting or whatever that it does.

Agreed, and hi-yellow is for highlighting some text in yellow, hence
its name.

The only real problem is that a user who wants to use a face whose
attribute do not agree with any of the predefined hi-* faces might end
up forced to use such a silly setting.

So the right fix is to provide ways for the user to add her own faces.

An alternative might be to let the user specify either a face name or
a color name, so we can get rid of hi-yellow altogether.  But that still
only caters to "highlighting with a color", whereas faces offer
more choices.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-27  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-11  6:14 bug#13686: 24.3.50; Re-look hi-lock-face-defaults (aka Provide more "core" faces for highlighting) Jambunathan K
2013-02-15 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-15 18:29   ` David Koppelman
2013-02-15 20:39     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-26 23:11 ` bug#13686: hi-yellow vs. hi-lock-1 David Koppelman
2013-02-27  0:33   ` Drew Adams
2013-02-27  1:35     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-02-27  3:59       ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27  4:58       ` Drew Adams
2013-02-27  5:10         ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27  5:38           ` Drew Adams
2013-02-27  5:54             ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27  6:01               ` Drew Adams
2013-02-27 23:45             ` Juri Linkov
2013-03-06 18:43               ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-06 19:54                 ` David Koppelman
2013-03-07  9:16                 ` Juri Linkov
2013-03-06 19:04             ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27  3:49     ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27 13:46       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-27 14:56         ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27 16:27           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-06 18:56         ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-06 19:55           ` David Koppelman
2013-03-06 20:06             ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-07  0:54               ` David Koppelman
2013-03-07  3:23                 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-09  1:33             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-09  2:47               ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-09  3:26                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-08  5:31               ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-10  4:11                 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-10 18:33                 ` David Koppelman
2013-04-11  4:24                   ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27  3:36   ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-27  4:08   ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-15  4:45 ` bug#13686: 24.3.50; Re-look hi-lock-face-defaults (aka Provide more "core" faces for highlighting) Jambunathan K

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