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27.0.50; [PATCH] Tweak dired-do-shell-command warning about "wildcard" characters

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Message #29 received at 35564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Kévin Le Gouguec
 <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#35564: 27.0.50; [PATCH] Tweak dired-do-shell-command warning
 about "wildcard" characters
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 07:17:53 -0700 (PDT)

>  > (Perhaps those clients could be migrated to a new face,
>  > e.g. 'message-prompt', which would inherit 'minibuffer-prompt' by
>  > default?)
> 
> Simply 'prompt' would be more intuitive since most messages do not show
> prompts.

Sounds OK to me.

> But I'm afraid we'll have to stick to what we have now.

Why?  Not sure what you mean.

> Note that this isssue also touches one Drew raised elsewhere - whether
> 'tooltip-show' should retain face properties of the original text or
> show text uniformly with the 'tooltip' face.  Maybe we should
> introduce an option like 'prompts-retain-text-properites' so users
> have the choice.

I would prefer that the two be separated.  Tooltip text
is quite different from prompts in use cases and behavior.

Wrt tooltips, I also don't see why we need an option, or
even a defvar.  Tooltips should just accept and respect
propertized strings.

When you use `x-show-tip' there is no such problem - you
can apply properties as usual.  It is only `help-echo'
tooltips that do not respect properties (AFAIK).

Another, simpler possibility, for dealing with face
`tooltip':

It is not possible to simply _bind_ a face for the
duration (or lex scope) of a function.  But if we
use a face variable for this, e.g. `tooltip-face',
then it should be simple to do so.

IOW, work around the limitation that you cannot bind
a face by binding a face variable and using that for
`help-echo'.  That should make it simple for any code
to control the appearance of the tooltip text.

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