I think I've got it now...

Staying with the vb.nl example:

If Floris made absolutely no changes to the threadbit template, then it would inherit the changes that have been made to its parent style's threadbit, but the FORUMHOME one, which he has modified, would not inherit anything?

[high]* kall thinks he should have really worked this out in the beginning :)[/high]

Yes :)

*claps happily*

Right so, a really useful hack would be one that added new stuff on template EDITS, inserting the new stuff in the correct place on child templates with modified content.

Now there's a challenge. :)

How about a modification to this hack to copy new templates that were added to a child style, to be applied to the global style? Because I use a child style to customize quite a bit, then if I want to apply it to all styles (globally) I have to go and copy all the new/edited templates to the global style. THAT would save me a lot of time ;)

why thanks i've been looking for something like this!

thanks this is a great hack regardless of all the bashing going on.

There is avaiable anything that do this for 3.5.1?
Sorry, I didn't find it, either I don't know if is included in 3.5.1.
Thanks!