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From: "John A. Turner" <turner@branagh.ta52.lanl.gov>
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Subject: migrating from .xemacs-options to customize
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Alright, I'm sorry.  I was just too damn busy when all the customize
vs. edit-faces discussion was going on.  I saved some of the messages,
but I'm hoping I won't get too lambasted for just asking a couple of
questions.

I liked edit-faces.  I used it, and all the people that piggy-back off
my setup stuff used it.  OK, so it's broken in some way I don't
understand.  That's fine.  Don't try to explain it to me; I really
don't care.  I believe you.

So here's the deal.  I've got a .xemacs-options that sets wads of
faces.  How the hell do I migrate that to customize?  My first cut was
to delete all the face stuff from my .xemacs-options, crank up a new
XEmacs, and do Customize -> Face...  It's very impressive and all, but
I really really dread setting all the stuff I already had set up all
over again.  It looks like a huge pain (much more of a pain than it
was in edit-faces.  Please tell me there's a better way.  

Would it be better to convert the .xemacs-options stuff to X resources
and then tweak the faces in customize?  That still won't be trivial,
but maybe I can do something in perl or something to help.

Again, I'm sorry.  I hate to sound so negative, but I had things set
up the way I liked them.  Maybe it was flawed, but I never noticed it,
and it was nice and easy to tweak stuff.

I wonder if the answer to this is a candidate for the FAQ.  Maybe most
of you didn't use .xemacs-options and edit-faces, but I bet a lot of
users do.

-- 
John Turner
http://www.lanl.gov/home/turner

P.S. The buffer you get when you choose Options -> Browse
Faces... still comes up, tantalizingly, as *Edit Faces*.

