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28.2; Debian 12 GNU Emacs bug in Custom

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Barry Davidson <m4 <at> danwin1210.de>
Cc: 78808-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78808: 28.2; Debian 12 GNU Emacs bug in Custom
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:09:20 +0300

> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 05:37:51 +0300
> From: Barry Davidson <m4 <at> danwin1210.de>
> 
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:50:08 +0300
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > [Please use Reply All to reply, to keep the bug tracker CC'ed.]
> > 
> > > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:02:44 +0300
> > > From: Barry Davidson <m4 <at> danwin1210.de>
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:09:36 +0300
> > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > > Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:49:13 +0300
> > > > > From:  Barry Davidson via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > > > >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> > > > > 
> > > > > After changing settings in Custom and after visiting and
> > > > > changing existing theme in customize-create-theme, Custom fails
> > > > > to put ( ) around values for key :inherit. Example:
> > > > > It writes (:inherit link) instead of (:inherit (link)).
> > > > > Emacs then complains about errors in theme and if I visit it in
> > > > > customize-create-theme, then those fields are not properly
> > > > > displayed: instead of checkboxes there are just elisp code
> > > > > sections. I fixed my custom theme by manually adding
> > > > > parentheses ( ) after every :inherit keyword, like so:
> > > > > (:inherit (variable-pitch)); Custom wrote it as (:inherit
> > > > > variable-pitch) without parentheses.    
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you for your report.  But please describe a detailed recipe
> > > > for reproducing this problem starting from "emacs -Q".  Please
> > > > include all the commands you typed, including the specific theme
> > > > you tried and the variables/faces you customized.  Such a
> > > > detailed description is important for efficiently investigating
> > > > the problem and its source, if it still exists in the latest
> > > > releases of Emacs (the last released version is 30.1, with 30.2
> > > > in the works and expected to be released soon).  
> > > emacs -Q, M-x customize-create-theme,
> > > Include basic face customizations in this theme? y
> > > Change colors of all Font Lock faces, except inherited ones.
> > > Save Theme. Then next day M-x customize-create-theme,
> > > Visit Theme, Font Lock Keyword Face and Font Lock Builtin Face - add
> > > Weight bold, Save Theme. Restart emacs and there are errors in
> > > *Messages*. M-x customize-create-theme, Visit Theme, click on
> > > arrows to show each face. Faces that inherit from other faces show
> > > just lisp code instead of checkboxes. For example, Font Lock
> > > Comment Delimiter Face. emacs -Q, M-x customize-create-theme,
> > > Include basic face customizations in this theme? y
> > > Save Theme. Then compare this theme to the one I've created. After
> > > studying the code I've noticed lack of parentheses ( ) around values
> > > for key :inherit. Adding parentheses manually fixed the problem. I
> > > can load the theme and when visiting in M-x customize-create-theme,
> > > the checkboxes are in place.  
> > 
> > Thanks, and sorry for the long delay.
> > 
> > I tried this recipe now with what will soon become Emacs 30.2, and I
> > cannot reproduce the problems you are describing.  I see neither error
> > messages in *Messages* nor Lisp code instead of checkboxes in the face
> > descriptions.
> > 
> > You report these problems in Emacs 28.2, which is quite old, so
> > perhaps the problems were already fixed since then?  Can you try the
> > latest pretest of Emacs 30.2, available here:
> > 
> >   https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.1.90.tar.xz
> > 
> > and see if the problems are gone?
> 
> The problem is not present in emacs-30.1.90.tar.xz

Thanks, so I'm closing this bug.

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