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

[Richard Stallman]

    > 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?

    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 don't understand the description of the problem -- could you spell
it out more?