Re: Emphasize the character to be typed next in *Completions*

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:32:03PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I agree, as regards font lock faces.  However, when a face is used
> > only in a specific mode, then this motivation for customizing it would
> > be rare.
> 
> I don't see any reason why similar issues wouldn't come up.  You might want
> to use different faces for "dired on /etc" than "dired on /home/foo".

Yeah, but it's proably an awful lot less likely (not that I have any proof,
but ...).

> Other examples: header-line face, default face, ... I'd love to have
> different settings for those in different buffers (or at least in different
> modes).

Of course this is definitely true.

I posted an idea for per-buffer faces a while ago (a buffer-local variable
containing an alist of face name remappings; face lookup filters requests
through this alist), which Richard seemed to think was all right; I think
I'll take a shot at a simple implementation.

-Miles
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