Re: face-alias issues

[Miles Bader]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> I believe that requires the patch below to `custom-theme-set-faces'.
> Note that after this patch, if you save any face whatsoever to .emacs,
> the reference to the obsolete face in your .emacs will automatically
> be replaced with the new name.  That is very nice in some sense, but
> it also means that the customization may no longer work correctly on
> older Emacs versions that still use the old name.  I installed a similar
> change for variable aliases (with the same drawback) a while ago.
> Richard said that the drawback was not serious enough not to install
> the variable change.

I think that's true in this case too.

Though there will inevitably be a few people with unusual requirements,
I think most tend to use a given .emacs file with a single installation
of emacs, and the emacs installation only gets upgraded, never
downgraded.

[Even people that occasionally use an older version of emacs probably
wouldn't be excessively bothered by a few customized faces reverting to
the default when they did so.]

> Have all faces that were renamed been given suitable aliases?
> Otherwise, the feature may not work too well in practice.

All the ones I renamed were.

-Miles
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