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customize-face not working: seems to apply to frame-face

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3408: closed (customize-face not working: seems to apply to
 frame-face)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:07:02 +0000

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From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: customize-face not working: seems to apply to frame-face
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 20:40:37 -0400

Emacs -Q

(set-face-attribute 'default nil
		    :height 130
		    :family "Lucida Grande")
;; switches default face

(customize-face 'default)
;; switch back manually to Monaco

(make-frame-command)  ;; C-x 5 2
;; the new frame is shown in the Lucida face.  Why?

The same thing works as I would expect in Emacs 22.  I would generally  
assume that `customize-face' applies to faces in future frames as well.

If this is no bug, I think an entry in NEWS under "Faces" would be  
appropriate....

Cc'ing Bob Halley who isolated this (but doesn't think it's a bug).


PS.: text-scale-mode is mentioned twice in NEWS.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 'David Reitter' <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>, 3210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	3408-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3408: bug#3210: face customization fails after
	set-face-attribute
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:04:32 +0800

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Bug #3408 is a _regression_, and it has not been fixed.
> A regression is certainly NOT `notabug'.

I disagree that this is a bug.  I have now taken another look at the
code, and my earlier conclusion stands.  Modifications to internal Lisp
faces (via set-face-attribute) take precedence over the effect of face
specs, so the behavior is working as intended and as documented
(including in the docstring of set-face-attribute).

The trunk now contains a change to face-spec-set which allows it to be
more easily called from Lisp code to override defface specs.  If you
want to modify faces from Lisp, use that rather than set-face-attribute.

Don't re-open this bug based on uninformed opinion.  Thanks.

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