Re: Buffer-local faces

[Stefan Monnier]

>     A related question is how to make a face that uses explicitly the
>     default font.  E.g. let's say my header-line face uses helvetica font
>     and I want to put text in the header-line that uses the same font as
>     the default font.  Right now, the best I could come up with is to
>     extract the font of `default' and pass it to `myface', but that's done
>     "statically".

> Complications like these are expensive in terms of the ease of
> understanding Emacs.  If we can do without them, let's do without them.

Agreed.  I'm looking for a simple and generic solution.
Haven't found it yet,


        Stefan