GNU bug report logs - #53636
29.0.50; face-remapping broken on master

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 53636 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tsdh <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#53636: 29.0.50; face-remapping broken on master
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 09:20:24 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> So I can just reiterate what I said up-thread: basic faces cannot
> inherit from other faces, if we want to support remapping of those
> parent faces.  Our internal infrastructure for handling the basic
> faces simply doesn't support this.

Thanks for the analysis here -- it indeed seems like a much more complex
problem than I'd assumed.

I guess we should just document that face remapping doesn't work
reliably when remapping parent faces to the basic faces?

And for this bug report, the answer is "you have to use mode-line-active
instead of mode-line".

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