From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: can't set both mode-line color and default frame font? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:43:10 +0100 Message-ID: <46F0385E.5020800@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190148242 6126 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2007 20:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 18 22:43:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXjvG-0004an-25 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:43:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXjvE-0004VN-HR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXjuw-0004Eq-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXjuu-0004CS-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXjut-0004CL-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXjut-0004Rf-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5ACB51AD5; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:43:30 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79223 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > It sounded logical to me when I read that customization should take > precedence over X resources. However, it just occurred to me that it might > also be useful for it to be the other way around. > As useful as it might sound, customization within Emacs should always take priority over the external environment. I am surprised that it is not that way already. Perhaps the parsing of Xresources needs to be moved earlier in the startup sequence (after site-start.el would be OK, but it should certainly be before .emacs)