Re: face-remapping patch

[David Kastrup]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> BTW, one reason for why a remapping alist is so nice is that it
> leverages Emacs' existing infrastructure well.  In particular, the
> user-related parts like face customization are built around global
> named faces (even frame-specific faces are not handled well [at all?]
> by this).
>
> When a major mode to remaps `default' to `my-mode-default', existing
> mechanisms can be used to handle things like user-customization of
> `my-mode-default'.

This really sounds like a problem space usually addressed with
"specifiers" in XEmacs.  Unfortunately, I have never been able to figure
them out.

-- 
David Kastrup