Re: Migrating font faces from xemacs to emacs

> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:27:24 +0100
> From: Frank Steiner <[email protected]>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I see no difference between the way Emacs and XEmacs, the format
> seems to be identical when storing changes in custom.el.
> It's just that XEmacs uses different colors for almost every face
> (and that's close to 100 ones) and we wouldn't like to adjust
> all of them manually for those users who want to keep the old colors :-)
> 
> Thus, exporting them to lisp code from XEmacs would be nice so that
> we can provide a lisp snippet with all the faces.

If there's no difference, why not copy the defface expressions from
the XEmacs Lisp files?  What am I missing?