Re: Buffer-local faces

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'm not sure what's a useful generalization, maybe a "filtered inheritance"
>> where you can specify which attributes are inherited from a given parent.
> Yeah, the question is what's a good way to specify it?  It's always tempting
> to just throw in lisp code, but we've seen the messes that gets us into with
> the signal handlers &c...

Try -DSYNC_INPUT ;-)
Seriously, tho, the problem is not signal handlers (those are fixed
by -DSYNC_INPUT or by BLOCK_INPUT), but execution of Lisp code from within
the display engine (which can lead to crashes if the Lisp code modifies the
current buffer or does other such funny things).


        Stefan