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Subject: Re: Save Options broken on 19.15-b99
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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de>
Date: 17 Mar 1997 21:54:33 +0100
In-Reply-To: Derrell Lipman's message of Mon, 17 Mar 1997 10:00:52 -0500 (EST)
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Derrell Lipman <derrell@vis-av.com> writes:

> Options -> Save Options eliminates all (make-face ...) entries from
> .xemacs-options.  This means that editing faces with Options -> Browse
> Faces and then saving causes all faces to revert to defaults the next
> time xemacs is started, and all custom face changes are lost.

Please use custom for changing faces (and saving them!) as browse
faces doesn't work correctly. It's a nice way of browsing and even of
temporarily changing a face, but for saving the stable version one
would like to have for a particular face, it isn't well suited.

[NOTE: I have written at least three long mails on the problems of
edit-faces or browse-faces, as it is now called, and why it is
broken. Please refer to these mails to this list.]

I would still vote for moving browse faces out of the Options menu.
I would also vote that save-options should save a "custom"
statement regarding the 'default face according to the specs selected
from the font, size and weight menu entries.

This make all this much more clear and logical, as you save-options
would clearly save everything selected from under the Options menu,
but nevertheless not save any broken face definitions.

    JTL

