From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: Further problem with recent changes to custom-magic-alist.
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:01:57 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1D45W1-0004QlC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502230050.j1N0oDM27910@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:50:13 -0600 (CST))
You have set this %c and saved it in your init file.
_The_ most important thing one needs to know when trying to save a
previously saved option to a new value or reset it to standard, is
whether it was saved _by Custom_, because that affects whether trying
to save a new value or resetting to standard is guaranteed to work.
Hmmm ... I am confused. When I look at my .emacs file I see
(custom-set-faces
;; ...
'(Buffer-menu-buffer-face ((t (:weight normal))))
'(Info-title-1-face ((t (:background "DodgerBlue4" :foreground "white" :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 193 :width normal))))
;; ... )
[[The poor pretty printing is not mine. The automatically written code
should have incorporated a pretty printer with a fill column of 70.
On looking at it, emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/pp.el lacks a variable for
`fill-column' with a default value of 70; its addition should go on
the emacs/etc/TODO list.]]
When I want to change the background color from "DodgerBlue4" to
"mediumblue" (as I did once) I simply change the expression and
re-evaluate it. If I like the new color (I didn't) I save it. If I
do not like the new color I revert it and save.
As far as I know, when you set and save a value, you get the
"last value saved from customize" (to quote emacs/lisp/cus-edit.el).
The other possible states do not really matter. What matters is that
Emacs evaluates the `custom-set-faces expression and saves it.
It is nice to know about the other possible states. It is good to
read the source code; but many novices will not. But some of them
will look at the message.
Hence, it is a good message.
--
Robert J. Chassell
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-15 0:55 Further problem with recent changes to custom-magic-alist Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-22 8:42 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-22 15:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-22 23:10 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-02-23 0:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-23 1:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-23 23:01 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2005-02-23 20:37 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-23 22:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-02-24 23:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-24 23:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-27 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-27 2:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-27 20:41 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-27 21:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-02-24 3:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
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