Re: New XEmacsen at long last (was Re: Who broke the (athena) scrollbar thumb?)

Jan> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Jan> I think at the very least for 21.0 changing face-spec-set Jan> would be a good solution. It may be kludge but at least fixes Jan> two annoying bugs one of them slamming directly in the face Jan> of newbies. The question is, is there any chance of it Jan> breaking anything. Probably not. As far as I can tell, `reset-face' is a general facility designed into faces, but was never used until `face-spec-set', which I believe is a Custom facility. `face-spec-set' is used only by Custom, and only in one or two places. I don't have the entire SUMO package, but I do have about 30 packages plus the core Lisp, and grepping through those shows only the hits I've mentioned. Now that I've studied Custom a little bit, I'm fairly confident that my original patch would not break any existing code (but can't be sure, of course), and rather more confident that changing `face-spec-set' won't break anything else, since it is a Custom internal function. Changing `face-spec-set' is the safer, more conservative approach. I don't like the third idea of saving 'default for reasons discussed in a separate post. -- 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 two straight lines for? "Free software rules."