From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53673 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: defface/defcustom question Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:44:32 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87llu27jsf.fsf@wesley.springies.com> References: <84fzkb88a4.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84llu3ht35.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <873cga92g6.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060455323 4022 80.91.224.253 (9 Aug 2003 18:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2217@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 09 20:55:22 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 19lYs6-0007t8-00 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 20:55:22 +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 19lYpy-0003LD-00; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19lYpp-0003L5-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 42158 invoked by alias); 9 Aug 2003 18:53:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 42153 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2003 18:53:01 -0000 Original-Received: from remt29.cluster1.charter.net (209.225.8.39) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2003 18:53:01 -0000 Original-Received: from [24.107.193.134] (HELO wesley.springies.com) by remt29.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 104747544 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ats by wesley.springies.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19lYpG-0005AH-00 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:52:26 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 09 Aug 2003 20:05:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53673 Simon Josefsson writes: > True. Hm. Using both a variable and a face seem to be common > practice though, I wonder if there are other reasons. Maybe face > inheritance is a recent feature? I dunno. I believe it is. The custom attribute is only from 2000, and I know these faces are a lot older than that. I don't know if there's a big reason to change it, but it might make M-x customize-group gnus a bit cleaner. -- Alan Shutko - I am the rocks. extraneous text! ... You may find (as I have) that Ron Janorkar's Tag-X