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Subject: |
emacs customize / frame color setting [almost] bug |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:53:51 -0600 |
Hello,
(I would use send-pr, except the company firewall won't let my GNU machine
[Linux] roam free. Down with corrals! I'll work on reconfiguring the
sendmail.cf so I can get through properly.:-)
Problem:
This is really a problem with user expectation, but it is surprising enough
that something should be done ...
The default frame colors are getting set from within the customize buffer,
but the changes are not immediately visible (since the "defaults" are
applied when a new frame initializes).
Steps to repeat:
- M-x customize-apropos <enter>
- default-frame-alist <enter>
- Insert (or change) the background color to something different (such as
gray20, etc)
- Click "Save for Current Session"
The result is that the color does not change as I expected it would. I have
to start up a new frame so the default colors take effect.
Perhaps the correct response is "Yup, that's how it is", but it leaves users
[such as me] confused [at least for a while].
The version of emacs is:
GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (i686-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
2002-01-16 on rmauctor.lsil.com
Thanks!
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