Re: Buffer-local faces patch

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried hacking up my idea for implementing buffer-local faces, here's
> a patch.
> 
> The user interface is the variable `face-remappings':
> 
>    Alist of face mappings.
>    Each element is of the form:
>       (FACE . NEW-FACE)
>    or
>       (FACE NEW-FACE MERGE-FACE...),
>    which causes NEW-FACE to be used where FACE normally would.
>    If present, MERGE-FACE... are merged during display with NEW-FACE.
> 
> E.g., try evaluating the following in some buffer:
> 
>   (set (make-local-variable 'face-remappings) '((default . bold)))
> 
> It works (or seems to!) with other special faces like mode-line, etc., too.
> 
> Here's the patch; lemme know what you think:
> 

Looks like a very useful feature -- and quite non-intrusive as well.
I think we can install it, and see how it works out.  

I'm not sure about the name of the variable.  It seems that there is
a preference to have -alist as part of alist varibles...

So what about face-map-alist or face-remap-alist ?


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk