From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; face-problems with multy-tty Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:27:09 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzpi350y.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87ejhcmgp2.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <200709062116.l86LGWnO000262@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <46435.128.165.123.18.1190653779.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190752714 25910 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2007 20:38:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bojohan+mail@dd.chalmers.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 22:38:20 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 1IaHAf-0006Z5-1a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:38:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHAc-0008Bm-2e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:38:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaH9w-0007WD-4G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaH9u-0007Vr-Nb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaH9u-0007Vo-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IaH9p-0006zj-Mz; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IaH9m-00033X-3t; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:37:22 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 25 Sep 2007 06\:44\:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1517 [September 25 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 25 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:79850 Archived-At: > Programs don't usually (to my knowledge) set new-frame (or other) face > attributes except as static defaults which are of infinite duration. > > If a program wants a static default, it should use defface. > > If it is true that the only uses of set-face-attribute > are places that ought to use defface instead, perhaps > we should make it obsolete to get those programs' developers > to fix them. > > What are some programs you have seen using set-face-attribute? This function is useful in .emacs to fix attributes of multiple faces programmatically (not using the customization interface). -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/