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Subject: Re: Save Options broken on 19.15-b99
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Jens Lautenbacher writes:
> 
> Please use custom for changing faces (and saving them!) as browse
> faces doesn't work correctly. It's a nice way of browsing and even of
> temporarily changing a face, but for saving the stable version one
> would like to have for a particular face, it isn't well suited.
> 

I've tried, a couple of times, using custom to change faces.  I've
found it very tedious to use, and I don't really understand it.  It
takes a full 60 seconds to create the Customization buffer on my very
fast computer, and then another 60 seconds to generate the buttons for
one pull-down (and I want to change lots of faces).  Browse Faces,
although I don't like the interface, is, at least, intuitive and fast.

I'd be glad to try customize if you can teach me how to use it
(efficiently).  I click on Options->Customize->Faces and it grinds
away for a full minute generating the buffer.  Then, using the
keyboard (since I don't even HAVE a button-2, and I don't like mice
anyway), I move to the first pulldown [-], for comint-input-face, and
press Enter.  About 60 seconds later, it gives me five sets of
buttons, containing different information for that same face.  What
the heck is going on here?  Why does one face have five different sets
of charactistics?  Please explain.

Thanks.

Derrell

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