Re: faces vs. fonts

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 Agreenbl@aol.com wrote:

>    This is probably more of a misfeature than a bug,
> but I'll let you folks be the judge of that.

I don't think it's a bug; see below.

>    I'm led to think (by set-face-attribute) that I can
> change these properties on the default face, and that 
> these changes will then take effect in subsequently
> created frames.

Faces in Emacs are frame-specific.  set-face-attribute expects to
get the frame for which the face is to be changed as its second
argument.  If the second argument is nil or t instead of a frame,
set-face-attribute will modify the face on other frames as well;
"C-h f set-face-attribute RET" will tell the details.