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>>>>> "JL" == Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de> writes:

    JL> Maybe all the folks who are happy with edit-faces would try
    JL> out the example I posted to the list just yesterday? OK,
    JL> interactive changing and then putting it into the Xdefaults
    JL> will never trigger such a bug, but that can hardly be
    JL> described as being an option for the newbie.

I'm all for making life easier for newbies, as long as things aren't
broken for us muscle-memory driving creaky old 'droids (and I'm not
saying they currently are).  I'm perfectly happy to M-x edit-faces (in
fact that's what I do now, since I avoid menus like Ebola... whoops,
sorry :-)

-B

