Re: reducing defface redundancy

[Per Abrahamsen]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>     Anyway, my point is that the new grammar won't make anything worse, and
>>     may provide some additional leeway for improvement.
>> 
>> Yes it makes something worse.  It makes the effect of cutsomizing
>> the face problematical.  At present that is not so.
>
> Huh?  Customizing a face now _throws away_ information (that is, every
> thing defined by the defface spec except that for the current display),
> unless the user selects the more complicated interface.  That seems
> pretty problematical to me...

It is a bug somewhere deep down in the code.  It is _supposed_ to only
affect the "current" display spec, and leave all others as they were.
I was surpised when I learned of this bug, but couldn't figure out how
to fix it.