Re: AW: Same coloring as GNU Emacs not possible due to fewer face types

Jeff> But there are other applications like dired that has Jeff> sockets, executable files, links (etc). How would you Jeff> combine 'dired' faces with the 'language' faces? On the one hand, `set-face-parent' comes to mind. On the other, I can imagine shell buffers using those faces, too, when ls-ing. I can even imagine synfl (syntactic font-locking) highlighting which recognizes "stdin" in a cc-mode buffer and colors it "FILE *". What I would like to see is a hierarchy like this: Physical faces Logical faces italic emphasis red warning sans serif-blue-on-black socket App-specific faces should not be created. Instead, there should be a face registry, and apps should define a specifier tag and use buffer locales (it should be possible to have mode locales, I think, which would simplify things enormously) to install face specs on existing faces wherever possible. This is of course just dreaming, as GNU Emacs can't do this. :-( -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.