Re: read-face-name PROMPT arg should be self-contained, including ": "

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> `read-face-name' still blindly appends ": " to the prompt it
>> is supplied.
>> 
>> I thought of `read-face-name' as an internal function, not for
>> users to use.
>> But I agree that it could be useful for user code to call.
>> So I'm not against making this change.  I see that all the callers
>> within Emacs are easy to change.
>> 
>> If someone wants to do it, please do it.

> Thanks, I hope someone does.

> BTW, for sometime after the release, we might consider adding an optional
> history-list arg to `read-face-name', so accessing history entries doesn't
> include non-face stuff.

I was recently thinking that rather than adding new history vars everywhere
all the time, we could change the history navigation to automatically skip
entries which are not completion candidates (at least for those cases that
are `must-match').


        Stefan