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[RFE] (message) should be printing colors

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From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [RFE] (message) should be printing colors
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:22:26 +0300

From what I see, both (print) and (message) print colored strings as
non-colored lists in the minibuffer. In batch-mode this information
gets stripped outright. I am not sure what was the reason for the
design decision for batch mode to be different, but since it already
is, let's please make that useful. A code like:

	(message (propertize "This is an error" 'font-lock-face 'error))

…in batch-mode should be colored red.

I am writing some tests, and this is very annoying to search among a
bunch of output the message from the failing test, and printing a
propertized string seems to be the most logical way to make message
colored. But that just doesn't work. Can we please fix that?

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