Re: overriding a face [was: 23.0.50; face-problems with multy-tty]

[Richard Stallman]

    What I'm asking for is something that will _create or replace_ a face
    definition, the same way `setq' creates a new variable or replaces an
    existing variable's value.

I had no idea that is what you wanted to do.

The way to do that is to call make-face, then face-spec-set.
We could make a simple way to do both, if it is useful often enough
to be worth its weight in paper in the manual.