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bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardc
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:12:24 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 06:36:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: clement.pit@gmail.com, 24594@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > The variable-pitch face is a very general face: it stands for a face
> > using any variable-pitch font, of which there are gazillions.
>
> A single face.
Yes, a mode that was made for using a single face. There's nothing
wrong about that.
> The face is hard-coded in the command. You cannot use the command
> with a different face. Being able to customize a face is something
> else altogether.
Yes, I understood that the first time. Reiterating this doesn't help
in any way.
> And no, there is nothing special about face `variable-pitch'. In
> particular, there is nothing that prevents you from customizing it
> to a fixed-pitch face.
Of course. But why would one want to do that? It's like customizing
a color named "black" to have the same appearance as "white".
Anyway, looks like one more of those arguments that go nowhere, so I'm
out.
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, Drew Adams, 2016/10/02
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, npostavs, 2016/10/04
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, Drew Adams, 2016/10/04
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, npostavs, 2016/10/05
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, Drew Adams, 2016/10/05
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, Noam Postavsky, 2016/10/05
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, Drew Adams, 2016/10/05
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, Noam Postavsky, 2016/10/05
- bug#24594: 24.5; `variable-pitch-mode': accept FACE arg instead of hardcoding the face, Drew Adams, 2016/10/06