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newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de writes:

> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>
>> newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de writes:
>>
>>> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>>>
>>>> vm-8.1.0-devo-464
>>>> GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.12) of 2007-06-21 on
>>>> lion
>>>> OS Debian Testing
>>>>
>>>> I use a dark background as my default (black). The summary faces are
>>>> 'invisible' for unread messages (black on black) and difficult to read for
>>>> others (i.e. deleted is gray50 on black etc). 
>>>>
>>>> I set these faces through customize, but the changes only last for the current
>>>> session. When I re-start emacs, they are back to their defaults.
>>>>
>>>> Checking my .emacs, I have the following lines -
>>>>
>>>>  '(vm-summary-selected-face ((t (:background "black" :foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
>>>>  '(vm-summary-unread-face ((t (:foreground "green"))))
>>>>
>>>> so its possible vm just isn't setting the values from my .emacs file. However,
>>>> it does appear to be saving these values to the file. 
>>>>
>>>> I also noticed this behavior running the vm-rfaddons stuff with vm 19. In
>>>> particular, I have problems with urls in the body text. They are dark blue by
>>>> default, which doesn't stand out too well on a black background. All my
>>>> attempts to configure the face through customize fail in that they only last
>>>> that current session. This was observed with both emacs 21 and emacs 22. So it
>>>> would seem whatever the issue is, it may have been around for a while (i.e. its
>>>> not just in the new 8.x stuff, but has been brought forward from the add-ons
>>>> package. 
>>>>
>>>> I will try to dig deeper when I can find time. Just alerting you to the issue
>>>> now. 
>>>
>>> Thanks, but I cannot reproduce this, it works just fine for me.
>>>
>>> I see this note in my ~/.emacs
>>>
>>> (custom-set-faces
>>>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>>>   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>>   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>>
>>> Could you please ensure that this is not the case for you?
>>>
>>> Robert.
>>
>> No its fine and all my other face settings are working as expected. In fact,
>> the example lines I included were taken from that section inbetween face
>> settings for planner-low-priority-task-face and w3m-arrived-anchor-face.
>> Furthermore, I have observed the same behavior on two different systems which
>> have different face customization setting sections (i.e. customizations of
>> faces and colours are different, so its unlikely to be some weird interaction
>> between different packages and face customizations.)
>>
>> I'll try to cut some time on the weekend to do a bit of debugging.
>
> Please try to toggle the mode by M-x vm-summary-face-mode and
> check if it makes a difference, I have just seen a bug where the
> selected face is not set when enabling it at startup ...
>
> Also please try the latest version of vm-summary-faces.el,
> e.g. http://tinyurl.com/2erqvm ...
>
> IMHO it might be related to some settings in your ~/.vm.
>
> Could you try to disable vm-summary-faces, i.e. do not require it
> in your ~/.vm and (setq vm-enable-addons nil).  Then enable
> vm-summary-faces-mode ...
>
>> I also encountered another problem last night. I recieved an
>> e-mail with an image attachment. When I tried to view the
>> message in VM, system load whent through the roof (like over
>> 65) and I had to kill emacs to regain control. I remember this
>> occuring sometime ago when using the vm provided mime decoders,
>> which is why I moved to using perl instead. However, I wanted
>> to test VM 'out of the box' to begin with (I only customized
>> the face stuff because unread mail summary lines were invisible
>> when you have a black background under Emacs).
>
> Have you been using the VM binaries for decoding or the lisp
> code?
>
> Also in Debian they encourage the use of perl for this due to
> similar problems ... maybe I should make this the default ... 
>
>> When you tried customizing the face and couldn't reproduce the problem (i.e.
>> when you quit emacs and started it again the customzation was in effect), did
>> you happen to compare the lines in your customize section with the two I
>> posted? Just wondering if the formats were the same?
>
> I have now used your lines and it works for me, except for the
> vm-summary-selected-face.
>

thanks Robert. I will check the things you mention and report back after the
weekend. I recently created a full test box on an old computer I had hear,
which allows me to really test things out and blow away configurations, package
combinations etc without screwing with my 'production' desktop, so I should be
able to create a very basic environment and build things up from there to try
and identify problem areas.

Tim


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