Re: Is Default face a per frame attribute or a global one?

[Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@openmailbox.org>]

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