Re: Info faces

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjoha?=
>  =?iso-8859-1?q?nn?=)
> Date: 25 Oct 2000 23:35:17 +0200
> 
> Suppose I start X on host slowfox, then start an xterm here.  Within
> the xterm, I do `telnet frumple'.  Frumple is a remote host which
> doesn't have X installed at all.  On frumple, I say `emacs'.  How is
> that Emacs supposed to read the X resources used by the xterm running
> on slowfox?

Emacs isn't supposed to read the resources in this case.  This case
will be handled by the default logic that assumes the background is
dark on tty's, unless overriden with -bg or -rv command-line options.

> But maybe by `treating as a local xterm session' you mean that Emacs
> tries to read the X resources and falls back to a reasonable default
> when that fails

Yes.