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:

> Serving suggestion attached, for discussion purposes; there might be
> smarter things to do wrt alignment (using :align-to specs?  let-binding
> tab-width?).

Thanks; I've now pushed a variation on this to Emacs 29...

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> So this is like `M-x list-faces-display'?

Right; I knew we had something similar to this somewhere.

> But OTOH, indeed maybe better to use completion-tab-width
> like read-char-by-name does?

Yes.

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> It shouldn't be limited to hi-lock.  It should be
> for `read-face-name'.

So I put the affixion thing into read-file-name and made hi-lock call
read-file-name instead of doing the completion itself.

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