bug#13278: 24.3.50; Attributes aren't inherited in a copied face across frames

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>> (This happens in not only 24.3.50 but also at least 24.2.)

> In everything since at least 22.3.

Since at least 20.7, I verified.  Perhaps is the present behavior
the spec?

>> Say copy the built-in face `bold' to `my-bold' as follows:

>> (copy-face 'bold 'my-bold)
>>  = my-bold
>> (face-attribute 'my-bold :weight)
>>  => bold

>> That is normal.  However, if `(face-attribute ...)' is done again
>> in a newly created frame (by `C-x 5 2'), it returns `unspecified',
>> i.e., that is not a bold face in the new frame.

> Something to do with the FRAME argument of both these functions,
> I imagine.

So far I didn't find the way to make `my-bold' always bold by
fiddling them.