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: face-remapping patch Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5CB5F5E5-9239-40A8-A3B2-5F49B94E27B7@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212002775 6668 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2008 19:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel , Miles Bader To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 28 21:26:46 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 1K1RID-0008Rn-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 21:26:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38662 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1RHS-0007LR-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1RGr-00079N-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1RGr-000792-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35605 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1RGr-00078v-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from vpn-132-204-232-80.acd.umontreal.ca ([132.204.232.80]:33924 helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K1RGq-0007DC-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7A8FFB41E2; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5CB5F5E5-9239-40A8-A3B2-5F49B94E27B7@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Wed, 28 May 2008 08:22:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:97927 Archived-At: > Miles, could you clarify why you are proposing a remapping list rather than > "buffer-local faces"? I think adding "buffer-local faces" directly is no better. The good thing about Miles's patch is that it leverages buffer-local variables to modify faces buffer-locally. As a result, his patch is pretty small. To improve on this, I think we'd have to move to something more like XEmacs's specifiers. But I haven't even seen any proposal for such a thing yet. Stefan