* lisp/faces.el (read-face-name): Remove ": ?" from the prompt
to be more backwards compatible (bug#15909).
;; to define DEFAULT if MULTIPLE is nil.
(setq default (car (split-string default crm-separator t))))
+ ;; Older versions of `read-face-name' did not append ": " to the
+ ;; prompt, so there are third party libraries that have that in the
+ ;; prompt. If so, remove it.
+ (setq prompt (replace-regexp-in-string ": ?\\'" "" prompt))
(let ((prompt (if default
(format-message "%s (default `%s'): " prompt default)
(format "%s: " prompt)))