From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: defface/defcustom question
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 17:45:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluoeyyesxi.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84llu3ht35.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "Sat, 09 Aug 2003 15:13:34 +0200")
kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> 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.
>> And it simplifies font-lock stuff, compare
>> gnus-server-font-lock-keywords.
>
> I looked at it. It looks simple. But I can't see how variables made
> it simpler.
font-lock-keywords uses face names, not faces. Compare
info://Elisp/Faces%20for%20Font%20Lock
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-09 15:45 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
2003-08-09 13:13 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-09 15:45 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
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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