Re: Migrating font faces from xemacs to emacs

> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:19:41 +0100
> From: Frank Steiner <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I hope it's ok to ask here although it's basically a xemacs question.
> We are trying to migrate our users from xemacs to emacs (on SuSE Linux),
> and besides some other things, the font faces are very very different.
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to get the lisp code for the default font
> faces of xemacs so that we could add them to .emacs.d for users who
> want to keep the old ones. I can list the faces with "list-faces-display"
> in xemacs which will show Face/Foreground/Background/Fontspec for all
> the faces.
> 
> But is there a way to get this output in lisp format in which xemacs
> stores them when I change sth. from the default, e.g.
>    '(custom-comment-face ((((class grayscale color) (background light)) (:foreground "green" :background "gray85")))))
> 
> I guess that's the format I could use for .emacs.d, isn't it?

If there's someone here who knows enough about XEmacs faces to
understand what you are asking, I hope they will respond.  Failing
that, please tell more: what is so different about XEmacs "font faces"
(whatever that is) that makes it hard to convert that to GNU Emacs way
of customizing faces and fonts.