Re: foreground menu bug

[Mathias Dahl]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> [emacs CVS 2005-06-12 with GTK]
>
> If I mark a text region and select the menu entry
>
>   Edit->Text Properties->Foreground Color->Other...
>
> I can select a colour (say, red) and everything is fine.
>
> After doing that, the colour `red' is added to the last submenu so
> that it can be accessed as
>
>   Edit->Text Properties->Foreground Color->red
>
> Doing this on another region, it is *not* coloured.
>
> IMHO, this is a bug.

I tested this the other day too and was confuzzled (confused +
puzzled). After a while I realized that it had to do woth
font-lock-mode overriding my coloring.

I don't think that this is a bug, but I'm not sure. It certainly is
puzzling for some users though.