bug#53255: highlight-regexp should show faces with their properties applied when selecting a face

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> This has such regression that before it supported the following workflow:
> in the minibuffer 'M-n M-n ...' used to pull hi-lock faces from the ordered
> "future history" list.  But read-face-name doesn't support this feature.
>
> If highlight-regexp should use read-face-name, then this feature
> could be added to read-face-name.  Here is the simplest patch,
> but it would be a tough task to explain the need of an additional
> DEFAULTS arg in the documentation.  An alternative would be to
> rewrite read-face-name and keep cdr of the existing arg DEFAULT
> for the future history of the minibuffer.

Hm, I assumed that that was what read-face-name did (since it allows
DEFAULT to be a list).

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