Re: Faces: How to clear an attribute while continuing to inherit other attributes?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dave Goel <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:13:51 -0400
> Cc: Davis Herring <address@hidden>
> 
> If this were implemented, I'd also want 'clear to follow normal precedence 
> rules. For example, if a region has 3
> faces, and the first face resolves to 'clear, then the final attribute is 
> 'clear no matter what the other two faces
> say, and no matter what any ancestor faces say. And, since the final, chased 
> attribute resolves to 'clear,
> emacs would look up the value from 'default, which always provides a value 
> for every attribute. 

This is against how Emacs merges faces.  But feel free to file a
feature request via report-emacs-bug, maybe someone will find a way to
do it.