Re: address@hidden: font-lock applied to comint prompts]

[Michael Mauger]

--- Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> If you can put the `face' property on the overlay
> only when the text it is over has a `face' property,
> then I think it will be correct, because when Font-Lock is off
> it won't do anything.  Could you do it that way?
> 

[Sorry for the delay -- I've been offline for a bit]

I tried this and it's no-go.  The face due to font-lock isn't getting applied 
until after the
prompt is processed in the output filter.  I'm far beyond my expertise here so 
I'll drop this.