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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> FWIW, I disagree.  I expect on the contrary that if the author wrote
> (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold), he meant "make this thing bolder than
> the rest" rather than "make this thing bold and override the default
> minibuffer prompt's face for all other properties".

Yes...  that might very well be true...

>> 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.
>
> You can use (propertize "foo" 'face '(bold default)) when you want to
> override the default minibuffer prompt face.

Ah, I didn't know that.

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