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: propose adding Icicles to Emacs Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182225165 2378 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 03:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 05:52:42 2007 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 1I0Ulk-0005qp-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:52:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Ulj-0001Jo-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Ulf-0001JZ-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Ule-0001JN-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Ule-0001JK-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts20.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.74] helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0Ulc-0006tk-V0; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([70.55.143.156]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070619035213.HKVZ1637.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@ceviche.home>; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 48821B4B9B; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:52:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 17\:31\:12 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:73268 Archived-At: > I find it _very_ helpful. What you say is true for only a few corner > cases, in general. > The current code handles all cases acceptably. It sounds like your > method is better in most cases, but much worse in a few cases. > As it is, we cannot use it. Most like we'd want the list of faces to take the form of a list of face-names (displayed with the default face) together with a constant text (such as "sample") where that constant text is displayed with the face. Stefan