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Is there some restriction that prevents me from using text properties
in messages that appear in the minibuffer? If so, does anyone know any
hacks to get around it? I know I can paste text with properties into
the minibuffer, so it can't be too serious...

Thanks a lot!

FYI, the code I'm trying is:

(defun x () "" (interactive)
(message (propertize "hello" 'face 'blue)))

.. which displays the message hello, but without any properties.
I've also tried imperatively updating the string with
add-text-properties, which also doesn't work.