Re: link appearance and soft face properties

[Juri Linkov]

>     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'.

This is an interesting idea, but then for consistency this should be
applied to every mouse-over attribute with follow-link property, i.e.
not only in compilation and grep buffers, but also in info, dired, gnus...

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/