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Subject: customize ignoring default (in fact messing up default)
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 16:18:35 -0500
From: James LewisMoss <dres@scsn.net>

OK I have the following in my .Xresources file so that XEmacs comes
up with the fonts I like:
Emacs.italic.attributeFont: -*-lucida-medium-i-normal-*-10-*
Emacs.bold-italic.attributeFont: -*-lucida-bold-i-normal-*-10-*
Emacs*font: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-10-*
(I think that is all the relevant lines)

So XEmacs comes up with lucidatypewriter and everything looks fine.
I to (load-library "font") and (load-library "cus-face") (thinking
this might be causing the problem.  It didn't.  Everything was still
fine after this)

But as soon as I eval this:
(custom-set-faces
 '(default ((t (:family "lucidatypewriter" :size 10
                        :background "grey40" :foreground "whitesmoke"))) t))

Everything that I haven't specifically told to use another font (like
lucida for italic fonts) is set to courier.  (I believe that's the
font it is set to. looks like it at least)  This seems to be what
it wants to default to, but is obviously not what I told it to default
to.

This is with xemacs 20.1b6, linux 2.0.28, and running it as xemacs -q.
(shoulda put this at the top.

Going into customize faces and setting the default font also doesn't
work.

However if I don't specifically set the default font using custom-set-faces
the resources work fine, and everything stays as it is supposed to.

(sorry for the formatting.  using mh comp while messing with XEmacs)

(build report to follow... (was a success if you hadn't guessed))

Jim

