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Subject: Re: save-options and xemacs-20.1-b6 problem
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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de>
Date: 17 Mar 1997 21:57:14 +0100
In-Reply-To: Derrell Lipman's message of Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:19:16 -0500 (EST)
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Derrell Lipman <derrell@vis-av.com> writes:

> Why would anyone _not_ want Save Options to do as it says, and save
> the options?  I'm confused.
Because setting faces with browse-faces is broken. Use custom instead.
 
> If there _is_ a reason to not want to save the face options, then the
> Options menu should have a way to toggle this flag, and the menu item
> Options -> Save Options should be changed to:
> 
> 	Options -> Save Options Except Faces
> 

The problem is that you are still able to cange faces via browse faces
and so most users would expect that these should be saved also. That's
a problem for sure. But nevertheless browse faces _is_ broken...

    JTL

