problems setting up font lock via X Resources

[Vin Shelton]

Charles Hines <chuck.hines at baesystems.com> writes:

> Howdy all.
>
> I was experimenting w/ setting up font lock (in XEmacs 21.4.15 under Solaris
> 8) via X Resources, and basically the only way I can get them to take effect
> triggers a warning from XEmacs.
>
> Here's the settings I put in my Emacs app-defaults file (pointed to via
> XUSERFILESEARCHPATH):
>
>   ! these take effect just fine:
>   FOO.default.attributeForeground: black
>   FOO.default.attributeBackground: bisque4
>   FOO*menubar.background:          LavenderBlush3
>   FOO*menubar.foreground:          black
>
>   ! these however do not:
>   FOO*font-lock-builtin-face.attributeForeground:       purple4
>   FOO*font-lock-comment-face.attributeForeground:       palevioletred4
>   FOO*font-lock-doc-string-face.attributeForeground:    yellow3
>   FOO*font-lock-string-face.attributeForeground:        yellow2
>   FOO*font-lock-variable-face.attributeForeground:      turquoise3
>   FOO*font-lock-type-face.attributeForeground:          steelblue2
>   FOO*font-lock-function-name-face.attributeForeground: green3
>   FOO*font-lock-warning-face.attributeForeground:       red4
>   FOO*blue.attributeForeground:                         blue2
>
> Then when I invoke it like so:
>
>   xemacs -vanilla -n FOO
>
> I get warnings like so:
>
>   (3) (resource/warning) Bad resource specification encountered: something like
>      Emacs*font-lock-string-face.attributeForeground: yellow2
>   You should replace the * with a . in order to get proper behavior when
>   you use the specifier and/or `set-face-*' functions.
>
> when I bring up and font lock a file.
>
> However, if I use the syntax suggested in the warning:
>
>   FOO.font-lock-builtin-face.attributeForeground:  purple4
>
> I get no warnings but the font lock settings I was attempting to get are not
> used either.
>
> Anyone have any hints as to the correct way to do this, or is this a bug?
>
> I prefer to setup all this stuff in X Resources over using Custom since the
> former has always worked out better for me in the past than the latter, you
> don't get the wierd color flashes or frame resizing as colors and fonts
> change, etc.  Plus now I'm trying to setup different color combos for doing
> different types of work and the X Resource method lends itself to that nicely,
> if I can get it to work correctly.

I think you need to put EmacsFrame in there.  Here are my font-lock
XResources:

Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-builtin-face.attributeForeground:	LightSteelBlue
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-comment-face.attributeFont:	-dt-application-bold-i-*-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-comment-face.attributeForeground:	grey66
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-constant-face.attributeForeground:	indian red
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-doc-string-face.attributeForeground:	DarkOrange
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-function-name-face.attributeForeground:	aquamarine
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-keyword-face.attributeForeground:	LightCoral
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-reference-face.attributeForeground:	aquamarine
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-string-face.attributeForeground:	cadetblue2
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-type-face.attributeForeground:	LightCoral
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-variable-name-face.attributeForeground:	aquamarine
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-warning-face.attributeFont:	-dt-application-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
Emacs*EmacsFrame.font-lock-warning-face.attributeForeground:	Pink

HTH,
  Vin

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