Subject: Re: bug#7966: 23.1.50; bold property, dark background, and defface

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:25:20 -0500

"Jose F. Morales" wrote:

> Is it a bug or the expected behaviour? 

I would say a bug. (This issue still occurs in the current trunk on GNU/Linux.)

> Can I safely replaced ":bold t" by ":weight bold"?

Yes. The former exists for compatibility with Emacs 20.

> In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.25)
>  of 2009-12-08 on huygens.local

That is a very early pre-release of what became 23.2. There is no reason
to use that instead of the 23.2 release.