From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Summary line format and gnus-face-X
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:22:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d320783z.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4qg1qmr.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:27:56 +0200")
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> That's nice for (2), but bad for (1). Now I can have
> colorized/boldified subjects with proportional fonts, but my column
> separators and stuff are also mangled which I don't want.
The problem is really more practical than theoretical. Emacs doesn't
provide "combining" faces when using text properties. You can put
overlays over text (say, italic and then green), but you can't do that
with text properties. So Gnus has the option of either overwriting your
carefully chosen faces, or not touching them, and there isn't much of a
third choice.
Until Emacs implements combining `face' text properties, which is
something that I really really really want to have. Overlays are yucky.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-02 6:31 Tassilo Horn
2012-09-04 22:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-05 6:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-05 13:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-05 13:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-05 16:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2012-09-05 17:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-06 13:31 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-06 13:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-06 14:23 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-06 14:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-06 14:58 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-06 18:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-06 18:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-07 15:59 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-08 9:41 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-08 11:45 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-08 12:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-09 13:13 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-09 18:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-15 15:24 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-06 14:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-06 14:51 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-09-06 18:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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