Re: link appearance and soft face properties

[Richard Stallman]

    > I think this can be done by making these faces inherit
    > from a face named `link'.

    This is an interesting idea, but then for consistency this should be
    applied to every mouse-over attribute with follow-link property, i.e.
    not only in compilation and grep buffers, but also in info, dired, gnus...

Yes, if we make such a face, it ought to be used wherever appropriate.