Re: what has the face `message-separator' *really* done for us?

[Damien Collard]

On Dim, mar 17 2019, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

>> Well, it seems to only be of effect when `mail-header-separator` has its
>> default value "--text follows this line--". I checked, and
>>
>> - when it's the default separator, I can confirm that changing the face
>>   `message-separator` does change the separator's color.
>>
>> - when I changed `mail-header-separator` to "---" (or anything different
>>   from the default), the face `message-separator` doesn't apply to it
>>   anymore!
>
> Have you tried restarting Emacs? The value of `mail-header-separator'
> gets written into `message-font-lock-keywords', which probably only gets
> updated when message.el is loaded for the first time.

I tried, and restarting Emacs does not make it work.

Going from a non-default `mail-header-separator` back to the default
does work (the face applies without the need to restart Emacs).

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Damien Collard