bug#4381: 23.1.50; Cocoa Emacs: face background for 'region set in ns-win.el after .emacs

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

term/ns-win.el line 1068 sets the face background for 'region to
"ns_selection_color", which is defaulted to lightgoldenrod2 on Macs
and looks rather harsh on dark backgrounds. My problem is that
ns-win.el is eval'd after your .emacs/init.el and will override
any color choices you made for 'region. I'm working around it by
setting the 'region background in a window-setup-hook (which is
after frame-notice-user-settings in startup.el).

It seems like this is a mistake and the 'region face background
should not be set in ns-win.el. It's unintuitive that one specific  
face setting
isn't honoured in your init.el.

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In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.3 (i386-apple-darwin10.0.0, NS apple- 
appkit-1038.00)
of 2009-09-08 on ermac.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: nil
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: nil
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
   display-time-mode: t
   show-paren-mode: t
   global-whitespace-mode: t
   savehist-mode: t
   global-auto-revert-mode: t
   yas/global-mode: t
   yas/minor-mode: t
   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   global-auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

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Erik Charlebois
[email protected]