From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: customized default face doesn't work on new frames Date: 22 Jan 2003 18:52:15 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043262331 20638 80.91.224.249 (22 Jan 2003 19:05:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18bQBj-0005MI-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:05:27 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18bQDc-0004uu-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:07:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bQBg-00043F-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:05:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bQAD-0002eG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bQ1m-0007Qt-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:55:10 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bPyz-0005TC-00; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:52:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18bPyx-0005nE-00; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:52:15 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10981 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10981 Richard Stallman writes: > If you customize the default face, it doesn't take effect on > subsequently-created frames, which is surprising. The code somewhat > suggests this is intentional, but I can't see why and the behaviour > simply seems wrong. > > I think that is a bug. Where exactly does the code suggest this was > intentional? Sorry, I should have written ``customize the _font of_ the default face''. `face-set-after-frame-default' makes a special case of `(equal face 'default)'. > I tried it just now, changing the background of `default' to purple, > and it did take affect for subsequently created frames--almost. It > changed the background for text, but it did not work quite right in > setting the background for empty areas of the screen. Is that what > you observed? No, I was only interested in the font.