GNU bug report logs - #73862
[PATCH] Add `header-line-active` and `header-line-inactive` faces.

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Message #8 received at 73862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: trevor.m.murphy <at> gmail.com
Cc: 73862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73862: [PATCH] Add `header-line-active` and
 `header-line-inactive` faces.
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:46:53 +0200

> From: trevor.m.murphy <at> gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:56:32 -0700
> 
> Over the years I've put more and more information into the header line, and at some point I wanted to get that quick visual indicator of selected vs non-selected windows when I glanced at the header as I already got from the mode line.
> 
> This was surprisingly hard to achieve!  For a few years I used an ugly `buffer-list-update-hook` hack.  Then a few months ago I got adventurous and found that it actually wasn't as hard as I'd feared to hack these into the C source.
> 
> The new faces both inherit from the current `header-line` face, so there shouldn't be any visible impact if users don't customize the new faces.  For cases like mine it's easy to customize header-line-inactive to inherit from mode-line-inactive.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your attention and feedback,

Thanks.  This changeset needs the appropriate changes in the Emacs
user manual (which lists the standard faces in "Standard Faces"), and
also a NEWS entry that announces the change.

Also, did you verify that modes which use header-line and customize
the header-line face still work as before after this change, both when
the window is selected and non-selected?

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