Re: Default-face grow/shrink commands

[Alex Schroeder]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

>       It seems that there's some state somewhere in the convoluted
>       machinery that gets invoked when the default face changes, which is
>       overriding the change; I think this is probably a bug (you _ought_ to
>       be able to make local changes to the default face!), but I don't know
>       where.  If I change my commands to use a frame of `nil' -- meaning
>       `every frame' -- it works properly, albeit affecting every frame
>       rather than just the current one.
>
>       I'd appreciate any insight people have into this.

I faintly remember that at one time, setting fonts via X resources
made it impossible to change them later using Lisp.  Something like
that?  There's also a link between the face and the frame parameters,
so if you change the face, but somehow it no longer updates the frame
parameters, you might have conflicting states.

Alex.
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