Hi Jan, Your patch (pasted below) sends XEmacs/cygwin into an infinite loop when I do M-x customize-variable. This seems worse than it was before :) Let me know if you can fix it or I will have to back it out of the windows branch. Thanks andy --- lisp/faces.el 23 Oct 2001 08:35:21 -0000 1.23.2.1 +++ lisp/faces.el 1 Dec 2001 05:54:17 -0000 1.23.2.1.2.3 ＠＠ -847,10 +847,21 ＠＠ (setq temp-sp (copy-specifier sp)) - (if (and (or (eq locale 'global) (eq locale 'all) (not locale)) - (not (face-property face property 'global))) - (copy-specifier (face-property 'default property) - temp-sp 'global)) + (if (or (eq locale 'global) (eq locale 'all) (not locale)) + (while (not (specifier-specs temp-sp 'global)) + ;; Try fallback via the official ways and then do it "by hand" + (let* ((fallback (specifier-fallback sp)) + (fallback-sp + (cond ((specifierp fallback) fallback) + ;; just an inst list + (fallback + (make-specifier-and-init (specifier-type sp) + fallback)) + ((eq (get-face face) (get-face 'default)) + (error "Unable to find global specification")) + ;; If no fallback we snoop from default + (t (face-property 'default property))))) + (copy-specifier fallback-sp temp-sp 'global)))) (if (and (valid-specifier-locale-p locale) (not (specifier-specs temp-sp locale))) (error "Property must have a specification in locale %S" locale))