Font model for XEmacs (was Re: Customize bug?)
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> > In FSF Emacs this is trivial since customize exactly matches the
> > FSF font model. Adapting customize to more powerful font models
> > (whether for XEmacs or for FSF 20.5+) without overly complicating
> > the interface will be a challenge.
>
> There is no XEmacs font model, which is the only hard thing about
> it.
True. font.el provides some of the needed functionality, but it's way
too naive to be taken seriously (no offense Bill!) Not to mention that
the redisplay doesn't support merging of font properties.
I totally agree. If anyone out there wants to help take font.el and move
it down into the display engine, speak up! I don't have the detailed
redisplay knowledge to do the work. It won't be trivial either, but we can
probably borrow some of the Emacs 21.x redisplay logic for the
font-property merging.
-Bill P.