Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text

[Richard Stallman]

    The main problem with these commands -- and so why I haven't pursued adding
    them to the official sources[*] -- is that they don't interact well with a
    default face which has been set using customize-face (because the Emacs
    face-customization machinery sucks).

Could you please describe the problem in a clearer, more constructivne
way?

    BTW, C-+ is OK because it's currently unused, but C-- is already bound and
    I've been known to use it, so otherpeople might use it as well.

If someday we make faces more useful than now, it might be worth
redefining C-- this way.  The commands could apply to the region when
transient-mark-mode is non-nil.