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> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:19:27 -0400
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> 
> My current patch does the former, but now I'm leaning towards making it the
> latter, and having remapping be a pure display operation -- it just seems
> simpler to deal with.  Lisp code that's interested in such matters can look
> at the variable to see what's up.

Or we could add a new function, face-real-attribute, say, that would
return the attribute after any remappings took place.  For example, it
might be useful to know what is the real color displayed on
color-challenged terminals when the face requests a color that isn't
directly available.