Re: problems with face-spec-reset-face and set-face-attribute

[Juri Linkov]

>     Then I'm confused. As Juri said (and it works):
>
>       `unspecified' does just what it says, i.e. leaves the default frame
>       value untouched.  If you want to change the default for new frames,
>       you can set the value of this attribute to nil.  So this should work
>       just fine:
>
>           (set-face-attribute 'completions-first-difference nil :inherit nil)
>
> I don't think that is how things are designed to work.
> I don't know what he meant by it, so I don't see a reason
> to argue about the hermeneutics.

I don't know if this is designed to work so or not, since I am not the
author of this functionality, and I can't find where it is documented.
I deduced my suggestion after looking at the code and data structures
to help Drew with his unanswered questions.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/