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

[Daniel Colascione]

On 01/15/2014 12:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Josh <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:05:05 -0800
> > Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, Jan Djärv <address@hidden>,
> >         Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>, Chong Yidong <address@hidden>, 
> > emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> >
> > Though this does seem likely, it might be wise to adopt a less
> > specific name for this attribute now in case other appropriate uses
> > of this adjustment mechanism later come to light.  If we were to
> > use a name like :attribute-filters or :attribute-adjusters we'd retain
> > flexibility for the future even though we might only support
> > adjusting foreground color initially (or indeed ever).
>
> It has been a long tradition of Emacs not to generalize before there's
> a clear and present need to.

Sure. The problem with :adjust-colors or some other specific name, 
though, is what happens to ordering if we introduce other kinds of 
filters. If we have :adjust-colors and some hypothetical :adjust-foo, 
the order in which the adjustments are made becomes unclear. If we have 
a single list of filters, ordering is natural.

Also, can we please include "post-" in the name of the attribute? I want 
to emphasize that the filtering happens *after* face merging.