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[PATCH] Add optional inherit argument to 'face-all-attributes'

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77945: [PATCH] Add optional inherit argument to
 'face-all-attributes'
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:11:00 -0400

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:45:40 -0400
> > Cc: 77945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> >  Please describe the situations where you need this, and what is
> >  missing if the inherited attributes are not shown.
> >
> >  > It's not clear to me if this warrants news.
> >
> >  It does.  Moreover, the function's documentation in the ELisp manual
> >  needs to be updated.
> >
> > I've found this useful when trying to understand face definitions and
> when inheritance is out of order vs.
> > intended.
>
> Doesn't describe-face already satisfy that need?
>

I wanted a programmatic API where I could "diff" output.

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