The minibuffer prompt displayed by functions that use (interactive) is usually<br>highlighted with the face `minibuffer-prompt&#39;. However, interactive specs &quot;c&quot;,<br>&quot;k&quot; and &quot;K&quot; don&#39;t do this.<br>
<br>To reproduce:<br><br>&nbsp; emacs -Q<br>&nbsp; M-z<br><br>Running this function shows the difference more clearly:<br><br>&nbsp; (defun example-prompt (&amp;rest args)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (interactive &quot;sXXXX: \ncXXXX: \nkXXXX: \nKXXXX: &quot;)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (ignore args))<br><br>In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)<br>&nbsp;of 2008-11-22 on elegiac, modified by Debian<br>&nbsp;(emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20081121-1)<br>Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation&#39;, version 11.0.10402000<br>
configured using `configure&nbsp; &#39;--build&#39; &#39;i486-linux-gnu&#39; &#39;--host&#39; &#39;i486-linux-gnu&#39; &#39;--prefix=/usr&#39; &#39;--sharedstatedir=/var/lib&#39; &#39;--libexecdir=/usr/lib&#39; &#39;--localstatedir=/var&#39; &#39;--infodir=/usr/share/info&#39; &#39;--mandir=/usr/share/man&#39; &#39;--with-pop=yes&#39; &#39;--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp&#39; &#39;--with-x=yes&#39; &#39;--with-x-toolkit=gtk&#39; &#39;build_alias=i486-linux-gnu&#39; &#39;host_alias=i486-linux-gnu&#39; &#39;CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2&#39; &#39;LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed&#39; &#39;CPPFLAGS=&#39;&#39;<br>
<br>Also observed in GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2008-11-10 on raven, modified by Debian<br>