Re: link appearance and soft face properties

[Richard Stallman]

    What about having a :link face attribute (property) that is soft, not hard?

What does "soft" or "hard" mean, here?

    That way, a single (possibly user) definition of the :link attribute would
    automatically affect any faces that have that property. And it would also be
    easy (including for users) to selectively apply the :link property to face
    or mouse-face or both.

I think this can be done by making these faces inherit
from a face named `link'.