RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs

[Drew Adams]

>     Most like we'd want the list of faces to take the form of a list of
>     face-names (displayed with the default face) together with a
>     constant text (such as "sample") where that constant text is
>     displayed with the face.
>
> That is what Custom does now; but it is perhaps not the best thing.
> What I have in mind is a hybrid approach (both for completion and for
> Custom).
>
> If the face is hard for reading text, do as you described above.
> Otherwise, use the face itself to display its name.

1. "hard for reading text" is too hard to define and treat well.

2. A hybrid approach of having some names with separate swatches and some
names facified, without swatches, would be confusing.

Let the user decide which representation to use. See my previous mail on
this.