Re: Overriding inherited face attributes

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:06:17 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:24:51 +0100
>> 
>> But then I observed that merely switching the order:
>> 
>> (insert (propertize "hello" 'face '(:inherit (:foreground "orange")
>> :foreground "red")))
>> 
>> makes the face display as red, and this seems to conflict with the above
>> documentation.
>
> It doesn't, because ':foreground "red"' is not the "underlying face".

That occurred to me, but then I have to conclude I really don't
understand the doc, according to my reading of which the `inherit'
property should have higher priority by virtue of being earlier in the
list.

Steve Berman