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25.1; GNU emacs 25.1: custom-set-faces from init file ~/.emacs ignored

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Message #23 received at 25228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: werner <at> suse.de, 25228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25228: 25.1; GNU emacs 25.1: custom-set-faces from init file
 ~/.emacs ignored
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:43:37 +0200

> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:20:49 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> CC: werner <at> suse.de, 25228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> IIUC all this ‘dynamic-setting-handle-config-changed-event’ mechanism is
> about detecting changes applied to GConf and/or GSettings on the fly and
> applying them to the running Emacs session.  Such configuration settings
> should never override anything specified by the user in her .emacs.  The
> mechanism was virtually inoperative for four years until Paul changed an
> innocuous parameter descriptor.  So this mechanism has never been tested
> in all those years ...

Can you describe how that mechanism is triggered by the offending
change?

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