* Setting rectangle-preview face in init.
@ 2019-10-11 12:45 Ergus
2019-10-11 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-11 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ergus @ 2019-10-11 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions."
Hi:
I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el (to set it
different to region) but I get an error that rectangle-preview is not
a valid face. I see it is not documented, but it is supposed to be
customizable in the customize dialog.
What I am missing here??
Is it possible that rect.el is loaded lazily, so when the init.el is
executed it has not been loaded yet?
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* Re: Setting rectangle-preview face in init.
2019-10-11 12:45 Setting rectangle-preview face in init Ergus
@ 2019-10-11 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-11 14:10 ` Ergus
2019-10-11 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2019-10-11 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ergus; +Cc: "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions."
> I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el
How?
> Is it possible that rect.el is loaded lazily, so when the init.el is
> executed it has not been loaded yet?
It's perfectly normal and a common occurrence for custom-set-faces to be
used before some of the faces are defined, so it's seems unlikely to be
the source of the problem.
Stefan
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2019-10-11 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2019-10-11 14:10 ` Ergus
2019-10-11 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Ergus @ 2019-10-11 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier
Cc: "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions."
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el
>
>How?
>
(set-face-attribute 'rectangle-preview nil :background "#cd0000")
And I get:
==============================
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ???/home/ergo/.emacs.d/init.el???:
error: Invalid face, rectangle-preview
To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
the ???--debug-init??? option to view a complete error backtrace.
=============================
>> Is it possible that rect.el is loaded lazily, so when the init.el is
>> executed it has not been loaded yet?
>
>It's perfectly normal and a common occurrence for custom-set-faces to be
>used before some of the faces are defined, so it's seems unlikely to be
>the source of the problem.
>
>
> Stefan
>
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* Re: Setting rectangle-preview face in init.
2019-10-11 14:10 ` Ergus
@ 2019-10-11 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-11 15:44 ` Ergus
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2019-10-11 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ergus; +Cc: "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions."
>>> I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el
>>How?
> (set-face-attribute 'rectangle-preview nil :background "#cd0000")
Why? Use Customize instead. It really works much more sanely for faces.
Stefan
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2019-10-11 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2019-10-11 15:44 ` Ergus
2019-10-11 16:13 ` Daniele Nicolodi
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From: Ergus @ 2019-10-11 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier
Cc: "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions."
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:22:29AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el
>>>How?
>> (set-face-attribute 'rectangle-preview nil :background "#cd0000")
>
>Why? Use Customize instead. It really works much more sanely for faces.
>
>
> Stefan
>
Thanks for the answer. I will find another way in any case. But this is
the first time this happens to me.
Just to comment:
I don't like to use Customize interfaces because:
I have my config in a git repo:
1) It changes my init file if I don't define a separate custom-file, and
it modifies it every time I install a package (sometimes just to test)
or change an option.
2) It adds all the stuff outside my pretty ordered config based in
use-packages at the end of the file or where it decides.
3) Some complex setups breaks it (like defining conditional faces
depending of some if conditions (window-system, (display-graphic-p)).)
4) Defining a custom-file (to not track it with git after every
update/package install) then all the faces customization go there too,
so my config will be not portable without it. The init file should
contain only one custom-set-faces... so I cannot mix them.
I won't ask for a change for anything of this, as most of the people
seems to agree with it, but in my case it only makes things more
difficult and disordered.
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2019-10-11 15:44 ` Ergus
@ 2019-10-11 16:13 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2019-10-11 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-11 18:50 ` Yuri Khan
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Daniele Nicolodi @ 2019-10-11 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
On 11-10-2019 09:44, Ergus wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:22:29AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el
>>>> How?
>>> (set-face-attribute 'rectangle-preview nil :background "#cd0000")
>>
>> Why? Use Customize instead. It really works much more sanely for faces.
>>
> Thanks for the answer. I will find another way in any case. But this is
> the first time this happens to me.
>
> Just to comment:
>
> I don't like to use Customize interfaces because:
[snip]
I think Stefan was trying to point you to `custom-set-faces`.
Cheers,
Dan
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* Re: Setting rectangle-preview face in init.
2019-10-11 15:44 ` Ergus
2019-10-11 16:13 ` Daniele Nicolodi
@ 2019-10-11 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-11 18:50 ` Yuri Khan
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2019-10-11 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ergus; +Cc: "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions."
> I don't like to use Customize interfaces because:
I don't either, but for faces I've found its advantages are significant
compared to the various problems with set-face-attribute.
> 3) Some complex setups breaks it (like defining conditional faces
> depending of some if conditions (window-system, (display-graphic-p)).)
Given that Emacs can have GUI and tty frames within the same session, if
you want your config to work reliably, the
window-system/display-graphic-p/... tests need to be re-executed for
every frame created (rather than calling set-face-attribute such that it
applies to all frames).
Custom actually does let you deal with that by specifying different
attribute values depending on window-system/display-graphic-p/...
(the UI isn't great for that, so I typically edit the custom-set-faces
by hand to do that, which is of course not recommended either, ...).
> I won't ask for a change for anything of this,
FWIW, I think it'd be good to have Elisp-access to Custom's
face manipulation so you wouldn't have to choose between the two,
Stefan
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2019-10-11 15:44 ` Ergus
2019-10-11 16:13 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2019-10-11 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2019-10-11 18:50 ` Yuri Khan
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From: Yuri Khan @ 2019-10-11 18:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ergus; +Cc: Stefan Monnier, T.V Raman via Emacs development discussions.
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 22:51, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
> I don't like to use Customize interfaces because:
>
> I have my config in a git repo:
>
> 2) It adds all the stuff outside my pretty ordered config based in
> use-packages at the end of the file or where it decides.
If you are using use-package, you can put custom faces there with :custom-face.
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* Re: Setting rectangle-preview face in init.
2019-10-11 12:45 Setting rectangle-preview face in init Ergus
2019-10-11 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2019-10-11 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-11 14:11 ` Ergus
1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-10-11 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ergus; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:45:30 +0200
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
>
> I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el (to set it
> different to region) but I get an error that rectangle-preview is not
> a valid face. I see it is not documented, but it is supposed to be
> customizable in the customize dialog.
>
> What I am missing here??
>
> Is it possible that rect.el is loaded lazily, so when the init.el is
> executed it has not been loaded yet?
How do you cause rect.el to be loaded in your init.el?
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* Re: Setting rectangle-preview face in init.
2019-10-11 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2019-10-11 14:11 ` Ergus
2019-10-11 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ergus @ 2019-10-11 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 05:08:38PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:45:30 +0200
>> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
>>
>> I am trying to set the rectangle-preview face in my init.el (to set it
>> different to region) but I get an error that rectangle-preview is not
>> a valid face. I see it is not documented, but it is supposed to be
>> customizable in the customize dialog.
>>
>> What I am missing here??
>>
>> Is it possible that rect.el is loaded lazily, so when the init.el is
>> executed it has not been loaded yet?
>
>How do you cause rect.el to be loaded in your init.el?
I don't, that's why I am asking.
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