Re: Recent commit modifying mark-whole-buffer (master/aeb613ea95b7970e66d663ec5cba54e9ec0528fa)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Yup.  Like I said in the bug report, I think the solution here is to
>> have read-from-minibuffer not apply the default face if there are any
>> faces specified on the prompt string.
>
> "Not apply" sounds wrong.  Better do an "append" so the face properties
> provided to read-from-minibuffer get merged with the
> minibuffer-prompt face.

That was my original idea, but I think Drew is right that if somebody
has said

(read-from-minibuffer (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold))

it's pretty unlikely that they want `bold' merged with the blue face...

I mean, they can also bind `minibuffer-prompt-properties', but
that's...  not very convenient, since it has other, necessary
properties, or redefine the minibuffer-prompt face, but that's also not
what you want to do for a single prompt.

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