custom font faces ignored

[fommil]

I have this in my .emacs

(custom-set-faces
 '(scala-font-lock:val-face ((t (:inherit 'font-lock-variable-name-face :foreground "#9876aa"))))
 '(scala-font-lock:var-face ((t (:inherit 'scala-font-lock:val-face :underline (:style wave :color "yellow"))))))

I don't think I ever see the val-face actually used (I mean when I inpect elementsn with C-u C-x =), but certainly when I write a var the inheritance from the val-face seems to be ignored: I see the squiggly but not the purple text.

Am I doing something wrong or is this some subtle scala-mode2 bug?

(ENSIME is turned off at this point, but I'm seeing the problem persist when ENSIME's semantic highlighting extends from these font faces)

[hvesalai]

There's a simple reason: there is no scala-font-lock:val-face. Instead you must customize font-lock-variable-name-face

[fommil]

doh!