Re: I can't make a custom face to take effect

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Kepa <gnu.cognition199@slmails.com> writes:

> I have added a custom face, but it doesn't work unless I do "M-x 
> org-mode-restart".
>
> The custom face:
>
> (defun yant/apply-custom-faces ()
>    (add-to-list 'org-font-lock-extra-keywords 
> '("(\\([^)]*?[A-Z]+[^)]+?[0-9]\\{3,4\\}[^)]*\\))" . (0 'shadow prepend)) 
> 'append))
>
> (add-hook 'org-font-lock-set-keywords-hook #'yant/apply-custom-faces)
>
> I have tried saving the desktop manually, but it doesn't take effect, I 
> have to reload org-mode each session.

I suspect that the part of your config defining the hook is loaded too
late. Try to reproduce the problem starting from emacs -Q, as described
in https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback

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