From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8454: deftheme, :inherit & overriding existing values Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 15:19:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87r58980f7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <20110507091706.DC97939C792@djcbsoftware.nl> <4DC54D3D.7090409@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304882472 8955 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2011 19:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 19:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8454@debbugs.gnu.org, "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" To: Christoph Scholtes Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 08 21:21:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9XP-00071d-8A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 21:21:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9XO-0000N1-Ne for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 15:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9XM-0000Mj-66 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 15:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9XL-0000Tk-1L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 15:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9XK-0000TZ-Rs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 15:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9XK-0005ap-1J; Sun, 08 May 2011 15:21:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 19:21:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8454 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8454-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8454.130488240521434 (code B ref 8454); Sun, 08 May 2011 19:21:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8454) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 May 2011 19:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9WP-0005Zf-1j for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 15:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJ9WM-0005Z6-8M for 8454@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 15:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036225146.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.146]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p48JJumZ028190 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 8 May 2011 15:19:56 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 313E4160603; Sun, 8 May 2011 15:19:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4DC54D3D.7090409@gmail.com> (Christoph Scholtes's message of "Sat, 07 May 2011 07:46:37 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 15:21:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46327 Archived-At: Christoph Scholtes writes: > On 5/7/2011 3:17 AM, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote: > >> Overall it works well if I start the theme from my .emacs startup, >> but it works less well if I load a theme after some other >> packages. E.g., deftheme before wanderlust works, but not the other >> way around. > > [snip] > >> Apparently, :inherit does not really work as I expected... > > I think this might be similar behavior to what I reported here: > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8454 I'm afraid both bug reports are too vague for me to figure out exactly what is supposed to be going wrong. Could someone provide a precise, step-by-step recipe for reproducing the problem? In the case of Christoph's report (Bug#8454), the statement "none of the custom faces for erc are actually applied" isn't specific, and when I tried to reproduce this, the buffer produced by M-x erc RET RET RET seems to display erc-default-face using the Zenburn default. A more precise description of the problem is needed. As for Dirk-Jan's report, it is very inconvenient to reference external packages like Wanderlust. Please provide a recipe using something in Emacs itself.