bug#47012: xref copies keymap properties to minibuffer

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.04.2021 10:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > See bug#47574 for a self-contained explanation.
>
> That's about the 'match' face.  I thought you were asking about xref
> and project.el, I guess I was confused.
>
> The colors you suggest seem okay to me, with a possible exception of
> lemon chiffon, but I only tried them on the default light background.

Perhaps you will want to add that reply to the newer bug's comments. 
Because the current comment seems more like a rejection.

lemon chiffon is indeed more subtle than the other colors in the default 
palette, so I agree it will be better used as personal customization.

> > 'xref-match' face is customizable separately, but I don't think it will
> > be productive to change only it but not 'match'.
> >
> > The faces are used similarly enough, so it's hard to justify making them
> > look different in the default configuration.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with "used similarly".  Are you talking ab out
> the faces in the XREF buffer?  If so, they don't show matches within
> context of a source line, they show symbols.

Please take a look at the output of xref-find-references or 
project-find-regexp.