Re: default-frame-alist vs. initial-frame-alist

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:51:08 -0400
> 
> > I'm quite sure the OP customized the list from .emacs, not from the
> > command line.  See the original message, which clearly shows that.
> 
> I still don't understand: if I do
> 
>    echo '(setq default-frame-alist (quote ((background-color . "blue") (font 
> . "fixed"))))' >~/tmp/.emacs; HOME=$HOME/tmp emacs
> 
> I get the same result: a blue background and an ugly font, both on the
> initial frame and on subsequent ones I might create with C-x 5 2.

Then whoever made this change in behavior failed to update the
documentation, which still says what I wrote.