From: Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@openmailbox.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is Default face a per frame attribute or a global one?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:07:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FBC1CE.7030602@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ts4ojx2.fsf@gmail.com>
On 25/08/2014 03:03 μμ, Alex Kost wrote:
> Alexandros Prekates (2014-08-25 14:07 +0400) wrote:
>
>> On 25/08/2014 08:54 πμ, Alex Kost wrote:
>>> Alexandros Prekates (2014-08-25 03:29 +0400) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Continuing little experiments to better undestand the relation among
>>>> fonts, faces, frames etc, i noticed
>>>> that if i have 2 frames (A and B) and i evaluate from ielm in frame A
>>>> (set-frame-font "liberation serif" nil nil) . when i check the default
>>>> face's font i see different values in frame A from frame B.
>>>>
>>>> So it seems that default face is a frame's variable.
>>>>
>>>> i mean every frame has its own default face? Is that right?
>>> As you can see after "C-h f set-frame-font":
>>>
>>> “...
>>> If FRAMES is nil, apply the font to the selected frame only.
>>> ...”
>>>
>>> So the second nil in your expression means you set a font only for the
>>> current frame A.
>>>
>>>
>> So default face is not a global emacs session variable. It's an
>> attribute per frame.
> I thought you were talking about frame fonts. AFAIU there is only one
> ‘default’ face (defined in "faces.el"), if that's what you mean.
>
But the assumption that there is only one global default face
contradicts with what i see.
In two frames (of the same emacs session) M-x describe-face (default)
gives me different font families ( i changed in each frame the font with
set-frame-font.)
Alexandros
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-25 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-24 23:29 Is Default face a per frame attribute or a global one? Alexandros Prekates
2014-08-25 5:54 ` Alex Kost
2014-08-25 10:07 ` Alexandros Prekates
2014-08-25 12:03 ` Alex Kost
2014-08-25 23:07 ` Alexandros Prekates [this message]
2014-08-26 4:55 ` Alex Kost
2014-08-27 1:49 ` Alexandros Prekates
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