Re: Same 'face' spec initialized to different values for x and terminal

[Juri Linkov]

>> emacs --batch --eval '(message "mode: %s" default-frame-background-mode)'
>>
>> prints
>>
>> mode: nil
>
> The background mode is only initialized in non-batch mode (in
> normal-top-level or in the terminal init file).

It doesn't determine the background mode even in non-batch mode:

emacs -q -nw --eval '(message "mode: %s" default-frame-background-mode)'

displays in the echo area just after start on the text terminal:

mode: nil

whereas evaluating it in Emacs displays:

mode: light

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/