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Subject: Re: migrating from .xemacs-options to customize
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From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Date: 28 Mar 1997 19:18:57 +0100
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"John A. Turner" <turner@branagh.ta52.lanl.gov> writes:

> OK, went and tried.  Modified a face with edit-faces, did Save
> Options, and it wrote out a new .xemacs-options with no face-setting
> stuff at all.  Just wiped it all out.  Glad I saved it first.

Just download the xemacs-19.15-sparc-sun-solaris2.4 binary kit to test
it out.

Apparently you have to 

	(setq options-save-faces t)

if you want to avoid having XEmacs silently throw away all your face
customizations when you save the options the first time.

...

Now how does one best express grave concern about a technical
decision, without putting down the hard work and good intention of the
people who made it?

> It looks like it comes up using the faces that were set by
> .xemacs-options.  What I'd like to do then is Save this setup for
> customize to use later.

You can not do that.  Custom doesn't work that way.  
It wasn't really designed for editing random faces.

