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can't customize default face anymore?

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: can't customize default face anymore?
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:19:13 +0000

Package: emacs
Version: 23.0.60
Severity: normal

Not sure if this is a bug or some intentional newfangled design I
don't understand:

Just noticed, while trying to use my usual .emacs with a recent (today)
CVS  build, that face default is not customizable anymore?    I then ran
emacs with no .emacs and tried customizing face default, and got the
following (report-bug details also below):

-8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Editing a setting changes only the text in this buffer.
To apply your changes, use the Save or Set buttons.
Saving a change normally works by editing your init file.
For details, see Saving Customizations in the Emacs manual.


Default face: (sample) Hide Face
   State: NO CUSTOMIZATION DATA; not intended to be customized.
   Basic default face.
Groups: Basic Faces
Lisp expression:
((t
  (:family "bitstream-bitstream vera sans" :width normal :height 118
:weight normal :slant roman :underline nil :overline nil :strike-through
nil :box nil :inverse-video nil :foreground "#000000" :background
"#ffffff" :stipple nil)))

-8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/src/emacs-HEAD-upstream/emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.8)
 of 2008-03-04 on golden1.harpegolden.net
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--enable-font-backend'
'--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/home/david/emacs''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_IE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Custom

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> M-x c u s t o m <tab> - f <tab> <return>
d e f a u l t <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
M-x r e p o r t - <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Creating customization items...
Creating face editor...done
Creating customization items ...done
Resetting customization items...done
Creating customization setup...done

Message #10 received at 35 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>
To: 35 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35: can't customize default face anymore?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:11:57 +0000

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> Package: emacs
> Version: 23.0.60
> Severity: normal
> 
> Not sure if this is a bug or some intentional newfangled design I
> don't understand:
> 
> Just noticed, while trying to use my usual .emacs with a recent (today)
> CVS  build, that face default is not customizable anymore?    I then ran
> emacs with no .emacs and tried customizing face default, and got the
> following (report-bug details also below):
> 

Setting default-frame-alist works around issue:

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10"))

;; also for custom default background + foreground colors:
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "midnightblue"))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "lightgoldenrod"))

Message #15 received at 35 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: 35 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35: can't customize default face anymore?
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:40:35 -0400

I've fixed this in CVS.  Thanks.

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