[WHL] Re: intern-soft, find-face/get-face, and facep for determiningfaces' definedness

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Nov 10 01:47:28 EST 2004


>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben at 666.com> writes:

    >> And "should we support GNU-style anonymous faces (property
    >> lists)?"

    Ben> Explain?

I'm not sure how it works or exactly what the API is, but apparently
it's possible to do something like

(let ((o (make-overlay there back-again)))
  (overlay-put o 'face '(:bold t :font "-tolkien-hobbit-*--12-*-elvish-0")))

and it Does The Right Things [tm].  Similarly with text-properties.



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