Re: A bug set-face-background

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi Kazu,

> Recent changes to Emacs HEAD made set-face-background strange.
>
> The following function sets the foreground of mode-line to "white":
>
>       (set-face-foreground 'mode-line "white")
>
> But then the following function does not set the background of
> mode-lien to "white" and turns the foreground to the original.
>
>       (set-face-background 'mode-line "white")
>
> This bug does not exist at least on Nov 1.

I experience that since some time, Emacs display "overrides" faces that
differ only slightly from the background and displays them in black or
white instead, to keep things readable.  What you see is presumably a
symptom of this behavior.


Regards,

Michael.