bug#53255: highlight-regexp should show faces with their properties applied when selecting a face

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:

> In addition to the odd sizes, some face names become completely
> unreadable (e.g. the ansi-color-* ones).

Yes.  But perhaps that's OK?  You don't want to choose those faces here
anyway.

>> But it does accurately tell you what the result is doing to be, so
>> perhaps it's OK?  Anybody have any opinions?
>
> Maybe using an affixation function (like read-char-by-name) would make
> things less jarring?  E.g. fontifying the same string for every face
> (say "x" or "example") and using that as suffix (rather than prefix, to
> keep the face names aligned)?

Hm, yes, that sounds like a good idea.

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