Re: Use of minibuffer-prompt face when minibuffer is not involved

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

> This emacs-dev thread should _drop_ the question of
> `dired-do-shell-command' and whether or how its
> prompting should best be worded or highlighted or
> whatever.
>
> It was a _mistake_ for the bug thread to ever have
> confounded the two discussions - and even to confound
> a third, also unrelated. discussion about allowing
> text properties for `help-echo' tooltips.
>
> The question raised for emacs-devel by this thread
> is whether non-minbuffer prompting should have a
> face, and if so, which face.

Right.  Apologies for mentioning the bug thread on emacs-devel.  I hoped
that confining it too footnotes would ensure that it would not derail
this thread (while avoiding the XY problem of not mentioning *why* I was
looking at these prompts in the first place); obviously I misjudged.