Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

14 jan 2014 kl. 18:56 skrev Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:

>> The most concrete objection is the case of inheriting faces Yidong brought
>> up in another mail, which indeed is a real problem.
> 
> Can someone clarify the problem?

The region face defines :distant-foreground.  A face that inherits region can 
not override that attribute so that is undefined, it can only be overridden to 
another color.

> Is there an alternative suggestion which solves the original problem
> while at the same time fixing this one?

Yidong hinted at a fix, i.e. let nil be a valid value, like for :stipple.  The 
argument against was that :distant-foreground would have nil as a valid value, 
but :foreground does not, i.e. they do not have the same values.
The authors of the alternate implementations must answer for their cases.

        Jan D.