Re: address@hidden: Re: map-y-or-n does not use minibuffer-prompt face]

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Kim F. Storm wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Sorry, I thought I just said that those places should use
> > minibuffer-prompt-properties'.
>
> Maybe you just said that in the mails you sent to me without
> copying the list...?

Maybe. Sorry.

> We should clearly fix the prompts which lack the minibuffer-prompt face
> completely (I will fix query-replace).
>
> But at this time I don't see a big need to fix this generally by
> replacing all places that set (face minibuffer-prompt) explicitly
> rather than using minibuffer-prompt-properties.
>
> I know Lennart disagree, but WDOT?

Yes, I disagree and I think I will repeat the arguments for clarity. The 
reason is that I want it to be simple to toggle the face used by the 
minibuffer prompts.

As I said in many other places we make it easy to toggle the face used 
by having a variable with the same name as the face. This variable is 
used when Emacs decides which face to use. By default it points to the 
face with the same name. Then the user can easily toggle between two 
different faces.

This is what I want the user to be able to do in this case too. There is 
however no variable named minibuffer-prompt. Instead 
minibuffer-prompt-properties should be used here. Currently in some 
places it is used to select the face, in other places not.

Kim, I think I sent you patches for all cases where I think 
minibuffer-prompt-properties should be used. Didn't I do that? (I am 
currently using those patches and they work well for me.)