From: Kenneth Rose <kenrose@rogers.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:42:07 GMT
I downloaded the latest CVS sources and built emacs 21 for Mac OS X.
When I loaded emacs, it started complaining because I had the line:
( set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-face "cyan" )
in my .emacs. It was complaining that font-lock-comment-face wasn't a
valid face. However, if I opened my .emacs and evaluated the entire
buffer (this is an option in the menu), the buffer evaluated fine and
comments were in cyan. What's more, doing 'M-x set-face-foreground' and
using tab completion showed me that font-lock-comment-face was a valid face.
The problem here is that font-lock-comment-face does not yet exist at
the point where set-face-foreground line from your .emacs is
evaluated.
The usual method to overcome that is to create the face with a call
to make-face just before that line. Alternatively, figure out what
part of your .emacs causes font-lock to be loaded, and place the
set-face-foreground line after that.