Re: Simplification of faces

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > If you want it to change only certain attributes and leave the others
>     > unchanged, you would need to call frame-attribute to get the values of
>     > the other attributes, and perhaps put them into the spec you
>     > construct, so as to make sure they won't be altered.
>
>     What does "call frame-attribute" mean? I see no such function in
>     Emacs 22.1.  Could you please give a more concrete example?
>
> Sorry, I should have written `face-attribute'.
>
>     Assuming I could understand and do what you describe, why would
>     each person need to do all of that, just to be able to change a
>     face attribute? Can't we have an Emacs function that does
>     exactly that, change certain attributes only? What was wrong
>     with `modify-face', for that matter?
>
> I don't mind.

I am looking at `face-attribute', and it looks like it would be easy
enough to rewrite `set-face-attribute' to use `face-spec-set' and
`face-attribute' instead of the current
`set-face-attribute-internal'.  Would this be a reasonable change?

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)