Re: Bold by moving pixels problem

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:02:19PM +0100, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> > A while back I toyed with the idea of using face-vectors as `anonymous'
> > faces, since it's often a pain to have to name a face.
...
> > That way, functions in realize-face-filter-functions could still accept
> > face- vectors, avoiding the plist translation step, but also use the same
> > familiar face functions that users already know about; this seems like a
> > huge win to me...
> 
> Did you try to implement this?

I actually did so a long time ago but never went further, so maybe I can dig
up the patch I made.

The problem is that the signal/mouse-face problem I ran into make it a bit
dangerous to add the face-filtering feature in general, until that's solved
somehow.

-Miles
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