bug#18902: Emacs 24.4 doesn't respect X resources

[Stefan Monnier]

> Debian has just upgraded Emacs 24.3 to 24.4 and one thing stopped
> working: It seems that Emacs 24.4 does not respect all the X resources
> that I used to specify (for many, many, many years) in my .Xresources
> file.
> 
> Going back to 24.3 makes the configuration work again. Going forward to
> 24.4 makes it stop. Tested multiple times just in case I was going nuts.
> 
> In particular, I set the geometry, foreground and background colors with
> the following:
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Emacs*cursorColor:            red
> Emacs*geometry:                       100x45
> Emacs*Background:             #002540
> Emacs*Foreground:             azure3

Can you reproduce the problem with "emacs -q" (with lower-case "q",
since "-Q" ignores Xresources)?

Is the above from your .Xresources or from the output of "xrdb -query"
(I ask since Emacs himself doesn't read the .Xresources file)?


        Stefan