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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: defface/defcustom question
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:32:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilubruzf4m4.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84fzkb88a4.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:55:31 +0200")

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Aren't variables and faces different things?  The variable identifies
>> the name of the face to use, and the face define the actual face.  An
>> extra indirection.
>
> One might ask: why the indirection?  Maybe one part of the answer is
> that variables can be buffer-local, whereas faces, afaik, can't.

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.  And it simplifies font-lock stuff, compare
gnus-server-font-lock-keywords.




  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-09 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-08 22:15 Jesper Harder
2003-08-09  1:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-09  9:55   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-09 11:32     ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-08-09 13:13       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-09 15:45         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-09 16:43           ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-09 17:16           ` Alan Shutko
2003-08-09 18:05             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-09 18:44               ` Alan Shutko
2003-08-10 20:34                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-25 14:41                 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-08-10 20:33           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-12 11:53             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-14 21:23               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-15 12:07                 ` Alex Schroeder

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