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Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:45:27 +0200 |
> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:57:41 +0800
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>
> The feature does not fit well with the design of the rest of the
> face-handling code. We already have a mechanism for checking to see
> when to use a particular face: the DISPLAY element in a face spec. The
> :distant-foreground face attribute, by its very existence, is redundant
> with what the DISPLAY element was meant to do. This adds extra
> complexity to the design, for no good reason.
>
> If you need to check for a background, the right thing would be to
> extend the DISPLAY feature to do what you need. For example, a DISPLAY
> element of `(background dark)' is used to test for a dark background.
> Maybe what you want is to be able to specify a color in place of `dark',
> which would mean a background close to that color.
I don't understand this criticism. How is this attribute different
from min-colors?
- About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Chong Yidong, 2014/01/07
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/07
- RE: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/07
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/07
- RE: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/07
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/07
- RE: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/07
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/07
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Joel Mccracken, 2014/01/07
Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Chong Yidong, 2014/01/07
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Chong Yidong, 2014/01/08
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/08
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Chong Yidong, 2014/01/08
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/08
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Chong Yidong, 2014/01/08
- Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/08
- RE: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/08
RE: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/08
Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/08
Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/08