Re: face-attribute and face-remapping-alist

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:00:34 -0400
> 
> On 3/31/21 2:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Sure, but the only change needed in all the cases you described in
> > order to return attributes that are aware of the remapping is to look
> > up the face in face-remapping-alist, before calling face-attribute.
> 
> You need to look it up recursively, which adds to the complexity.  And it's 
> more complicated than that if you use the "inherit" argument, since you need 
> to check whether the default face is remapped as well, and merge that with 
> the real default face.

The issue described by the OP was of accessing the attribute's value,
not merging face attributes.

Merging faces is a separate issue.  It is rare that an application
should need to merge faces, as Emacs does that automatically.