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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:49:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > > I think the prompt should be more amenable to Lisp (not
> > > done in C), and that any prompt features (including text
> > > properties, including `face' and read-only) should be default
> > > behavior only.  At least a start would be to allow code to
> > > provide a propertized prompt (esp. wrt `face') and have that
> > > be used/respected and not overwridden.
> > 
> > There's already a face 'minibuffer-prompt', so I'm not sure what else
> > needs to be done wrt the face of the prompt.
> 
> See "should be default behavior only".

See "what should be the non-default behavior".

And all your examples are about stiff that isn't minibuffer prompts
anyway.