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RE: Simplification of faces
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Simplification of faces |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:47:05 -0700 |
> > If you want it to change only certain attributes and leave
> > the others unchanged, you would need to call [face]-attribute
> > to get the values of the other attributes, and perhaps put
> > them into the spec you construct, so as to make sure they
> > won't be altered.
>
> Assuming I could understand and do what you describe, why
> would each person need to do all of that, just to be able
> to change a face attribute? Can't we have an Emacs function
> that does exactly that, change certain attributes
> only? What was wrong with `modify-face', for that matter?
>
> I don't mind.
What does that mean? Will you (still) provide such a function?
Lisp programmers have been able to modify individual face attributes since
at least Epoch (~ GNU Emacs 18.58 + faces and such) in the early 90s. It
would really be a step backward to remove this feature and make everyone try
to roll his own.
Apologies if I misunderstand you - your reply was succinct to the point of
vacuity. To me, at least, this is an important feature; please elaborate a
bit.