From: "John S. Yates, Jr." <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:13:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k7gv92d33gaqa9pacst2drk59rsdes6cvs@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoveqottrs.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader writes:
>Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> Return non-nil if face ATTRIBUTE VALUE is relative.
>>
>> What does that mean? How is ATTRIBUTE VALUE a face? This is
>> incomprehensible to me.
>>
>> I don't understand it either. Can someone explain?
>
>It returns non-nil if the face attribute ATTRIBUTE is relative when it
>has value VALUE. "Relative" means that the value doesn't _override_
>that attribute of an underlying face during face merging, but rather
>_modifies_ it.
>
>For most attributes the only value with that property is `unspecified';
>some attributes have other relative values (for instance, with :height,
>floating-point numbers are relative, as they specify a scale value
>rather than an absolute size).
Might "Return non-nil if face ATTRIBUTE VALUE is derived from
the inherited face." be clearer?
/john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-26 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <MEEKKIABFKKDFJMPIOEBKEIGDCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
2006-06-25 15:33 ` doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help Richard Stallman
2006-06-26 4:39 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-26 7:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-26 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2006-06-27 2:08 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-27 3:33 ` Drew Adams
2006-06-27 3:52 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-27 4:27 ` Drew Adams
2006-06-27 16:16 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-28 6:41 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-26 11:13 ` John S. Yates, Jr. [this message]
2006-06-26 10:57 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-26 12:28 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2006-06-27 2:12 ` Miles Bader
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