bug#420: Customize not saving faces whose values are hidden

[Jan Rehders]

From: Jan Rehders <cmdkeen@gmx.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: customize faces not saving hidden faces
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Hello,

I have the following issue when customizing faces: On C-x,C-s  
customize will only save those faces whose values are currently shown.  
Faces which have been applied for the current session and then been  
hidden using the "Hide Face" widget will not be saved to .emacs

Reproduction:

1. M-x, customize-group, RET, font-lock-faces, RET
2. C-s, Show Face, C-b, RET (show the font lock comment face's value)
3. Change the "Foreground" field to "blue"
4. C-c,C-c, y, RET (call 'Custom-set)
5. C-x,C-s, yes, RET (call 'Custom-save)
   Check .emacs if changes have been saved (see step 9/10)
6. Change the "Foreground" field to "red"
7. C-c,C-c, y, RET (call 'Custom-set)
8. C-r, Hide Face, RET, RET (hide the font lock comment face's value)
9. C-x,C-s, yes, RET (call 'Custom-save)
10. Open your ~/.emacs and locate "custom-set-faces"
11. Have a look at font-lock-comment-face
   It's :foreground field will not have the value we just set

I would expect that faces will also be saved by `Custom-save' if their  
value is not displayed

Apart from this problem it would also be nice to be able to get a  
confirmation when closing a customize buffer if there are unsaved  
changes like with modified files. Otherwise those thoughtless people  
like me might forget to save from time to time.

keep up the great work,
Jan

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In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
 of 2008-04-02 on seijiz.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.5.2
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/ 
Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=/ 
Volumes/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=-Os -arch i386  
-arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI - 
DUSE_MAC_TSM''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Zomp

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  reveal-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  global-hl-line-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  hl-sexp-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  mac-print-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  hs-minor-mode: t

Recent input:
<A-return> C-n C-n C-n C-l A-3 C-` C-` C-` C-` C-o
. z o m p RET C-p C-l C-x d RET ) n n n n n n n n n
n n n n n n n p p p p p p p p p n n n n n n n n C-s
t e m p C-n C-p r f o o C-c C-c C-_ r C-g C-n C-p C-p
C-n r C-g C-g C-g <backspace> C-c C-c C-n C-p C-p C-n
r C-c <escape> C-n C-p C-p C-n C-n C-p C-p C-n C-l
C-n C-p C-p C-n C-l <kp-enter> s e t C-g C-n C-p C-p
C-n C-l r C-d C-d C-d C-c C-c C-n C-p r <C-return>
C-n f o o <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
x x x <return> <return> C-g C-c C-c C-p C-p C-n r <C-return>
C-n C-f C-f C-d C-c C-c q C-n C-p C-p C-n C-l <left>
r e p C-_ A-s C-a C-n <kp-enter> r e p o r t SPC e
m a c s SPC b u g RET

Recent messages:
Mark set
C-?:help M-p:pad M-o:open M-c:close M-b:blank M-s:string M-f:fill M- 
i:incr M-n:seq
if: Text is read-only
Press C-c C-c when finished or C-c ESC to abort changes
Mark set
C-?:help M-p:pad M-o:open M-c:close M-b:blank M-s:string M-f:fill M- 
i:incr M-n:seq
Undo...
Undo!
(No changes need to be saved)
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