From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60447 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: face renaming Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:43:03 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118832279 16919 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 10:44:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8974@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jun 15 12:44:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiVNV-0004IV-VB for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:44:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DiVNt-00007b-00; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:44:37 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DiVNh-00007S-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DiVNh-0003hM-2F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from washington.hostforweb.net ([66.225.201.13]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DiVNg-0000wp-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:44:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by washington.hostforweb.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DiVNT-0004if-93; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:44:11 -0500 Original-To: Miles Bader X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/20.7 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6VnouEEVPYrG+wAyezjTKlm5ut0= X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - washington.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60447 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60447 >>>>> In >>>>> Miles Bader wrote: > I've just renamed a bunch of faces in the Emacs trunk to remove the > trailing "-face". I've added face-aliases to the old names so they'll > more or less continue working. > I'd like to do the same thing in Gnus, but I'm not sure if this is OK > given the compatibility requirements of the 5.10 branch -- I think the > face-alias feature was first added in Emacs 21.1 (I no longer have a > copy of Emacs 20 around to check, and the ChangeLogs are a bit > ambiguous, but that seems right to me). > Any comment? The face-alias feature is surely not available in Emacs 20. However, I think it is not always necessary to offer the face aliases because the default face attributions are not so bad. Emacs 20 users who have customized faces will probably notice the change, and deal with it by themselves.