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> no-window. The default face for the minibuffer-prompt is medium blue
> in no-window which makes it very difficult for me to see.

That's probably because Emacs fails to detect whether your terminal
emulator is using a dark or light background.
Try to customize `frame-background-mode'.  You can then customize
conditionally based on something like `window-system'.


        Stefan