- Any self-inserting character you type inherits, by default, the face
-properties (as well as most other text properties) of the preceding
-character. Specifying any face property, including foreground or
-background color, for your next self-inserting character will prevent
-it from inheriting any face properties from the preceding character,
-although it will still inherit other text properties. Characters
-inserted by yanking do not inherit text properties.
+ Strictly speaking, these commands apply only to the first following
+self-inserting character that you type. But if you insert additional
+characters after it, they will inherit from the first one. So it
+appears that these commands apply to all of them.