> From: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 00:10:52 -0400 > > I think this way of merging a face and a character code in a single > number is a kludge, a relic of an old era when Emacs didn't have any > other way to put faces on the text, and we intended to remove this at > some point. Maybe Emacs 23 is that point. We now have text > properties and overlays, so we shouldn't be needing this. > > I don't think so. If the goal is to change the display of a > particular char code, doing that with overlays or text properties is > pretty painful.
Well, then let's devise another solution, then. But doing this with C-like bit-shifting is simply ugly and non-Lispy, to say nothing of magical constants like 19 or 22. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
