Subject: bug#19339: face-remapping-alist ignored in echo-area

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:05:55 +0100

Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]> writes:

> (dolist (b (buffer-list))
>   (when (or (string= (buffer-name b) " *Echo Area 0*")
> 	    (string= (buffer-name b) " *Echo Area 1*"))
>     (with-current-buffer b
>       (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
>       (add-to-list 'face-remapping-alist
> 		   '(default (:background "green"))))))
>
> Still, the background of the minibuffer goes away as soon as you move the
> cursor

When the echo area becomes empty, then the background goes away; yes.
Probably because Emacs doesn't apply any faces there when there's no
characters there?

Or...  something else?  Does anybody know?

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