GNU bug report logs - #18074
24.3.50; `default' clause in face specs with custom-theme-set-faces doesn't work as advertised

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Frank Terbeck <ft <at> bewatermyfriend.org>

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 40336

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 18074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: ft <at> bewatermyfriend.org, 18074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18074: 24.3.50; `default' clause in face specs with
 custom-theme-set-faces doesn't work as advertised
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:07:01 +0300
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:50:34 -0300
> Cc: 18074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > (deftheme foobar "Foobar theme")
> > (custom-theme-set-faces 'foobar
> >   '(default ((default :slant normal
> >                       :weight bold
> >                       :foreground "white"
> >                       :background "black")
> >              (t :foreground "blue"))))
> >
> > What I would expect is the `blue' foreground definition from the `t'
> > clause to override the `white' foreground definition from the `default'
> > clause. But alas, it doesn't work, the foreground remains white.
> 
> I can reproduce this in Emacs 27, but not with current master.
> 
> It looks like this was fixed in:
> commit 05d365d3105371ec956f31f109a2de14c5cf67df
> Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Date:   Sat Apr 4 09:59:16 2020 +0300
> 
>     Fix face spec handling for 'default' "terminal class"
>     
>     * lisp/faces.el (face-spec-choose): Reverse order of 'defaults'
>     and 'result' when generating attribute list, so that the spec for
>     'default' "terminal class" is indeed overridden by the actual
>     class's spec, per the documentation.  (Bug#40336)
> 
> CCing Eli, hoping he can confirm.

Confirmed, thanks.




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