RE: Italic fonts show up as small UNitalic fonts

David> Following a recent discussion here, I have "(load David> "~/custom.el") at the top of init.el. Would that David> accomplish the same? Partially. However, unless you rename custom.el, custom.el will be reloaded after init.el. This is a problem in two cases: (1) init.el recomputes values for customized variables. (2) init.el adds specifications to faces. In both cases reloading custom.el will smash the changes made by init.el. If you do rename custom.el, setq custom-file to the new name in init.el. This tells Custom where to store new settings. (Otherwise it will recreate custom.el.) David> Would it cause other problems? This means that any code you have in init.el can depend on Customizations. This is unanimously agreed to be a good thing in general. Of course, this is Lisp, _anything_ can cause problems. If you forget that init.el depends on Customized variables (or Customize a variable that you forgot is used by init.el) you could get unexpected behavior. I believe it is always possible to get the default value of Customized variables (this is not true of specifiers, eg, faces), so a properly written init.el could be mostly free of such side effects of Custom. On the other hand, I know of no mechanism for Custom to take advantage of settings in init.el. So we are currently considering changing the loading order. This would mean your custom.el would get loaded twice, but I believe that is idempotent. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."