Re: customized default face doesn't work on new frames

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     If you customize the default face, it doesn't take effect on
>     subsequently-created frames, which is surprising.  The code somewhat
>     suggests this is intentional, but I can't see why and the behaviour
>     simply seems wrong.
> 
> I think that is a bug.  Where exactly does the code suggest this was
> intentional?

Sorry, I should have written ``customize the _font of_ the default
face''.

`face-set-after-frame-default' makes a special case of `(equal face
'default)'.

> I tried it just now, changing the background of `default' to purple,
> and it did take affect for subsequently created frames--almost.  It
> changed the background for text, but it did not work quite right in
> setting the background for empty areas of the screen.  Is that what
> you observed?

No, I was only interested in the font.