sb> sb> Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg(a)inetarena.com&gt; writes in sb> xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: sb> sb> How much of a problem is this really? Greg> I don't think it is. Some time ago I was trying to figure Greg> out where all my color cells were going (8 bit display). Greg> From what I recall, it seemed that for example the billions Greg> of Gnus faces (which I do not use but are defined in my Greg> XEmacs) did not actually cause color cells to be allocated Greg> until they were used. How much space does a face that's been deffaced use, even if it's never used? What prompted me to tap down that late night note was that I'd used `scheme-lock' to set some extra highlights, and I used `font-lock-emphasized-face', which is defined by cperl mode. When I restarted XEmacs, it failed to finish initializing becuase that's not a standard face. I thought that if the faces are all kept in one place, and got autoloaded when referenced, it would solve that. Maybe I should just say "never mind" and go back to my book reading. :-)