From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53681 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: defface/defcustom question Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:33:05 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <847k5l2qym.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84fzkb88a4.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84llu3ht35.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060561058 19404 80.91.224.253 (11 Aug 2003 00:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2225@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 11 02:17:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19m0NU-00083Y-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:17:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19m0L2-0006tQ-00; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19lwsE-0006XE-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:33:06 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 89580 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2003 20:33:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 89575 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2003 20:33:06 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 10 Aug 2003 20:33:06 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19lwzA-0003m3-00 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:40:16 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e095.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1060548016 14159 217.225.224.149 (10 Aug 2003 20:40:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Aug 2003 20:40:16 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ye55W/QnkyEDxUStc4VAVOj8bwY= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53681 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53681 Simon Josefsson writes: > kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> Simon Josefsson writes: >> >>> It also makes it possible to express "use the same face for this, that >>> and this" and then later be able to change the face only once to >>> change it in all places. >> >> But that's possible with regular faces already? Just use the same >> symbol (face name) in all those places? > > You mean changing gnus source? I meant for users. I don't understand. The default font-lock setup is to use different faces for all the elements in the server buffer. If you want to change the look of the faces, set-face-foreground and friends seem to be sufficient. Obviously, they can be used to make different faces look the same. And equally obviously, if font-lock-keywords specifies the same face for construct A and B, then they will always look the same, regardless of whether a variable is used or a face is used directly -- a variable can only have one value after all... I think I'm misunderstanding you completely; I hope the above helps to show you what my weak mind is thinking so that you can guide me out of the fog. I apologize for being so dense :-/ -- Two cafe au lait please, but without milk.