Subject: bug#15899: 24.3.50; regression: `region' overlay is lower priority than default

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:54:15 -0500

> In Emacs 24.3, the region highlight was not done by an overlay, but by
> special code in C.  Now it is an overlay, so the issue of priority
> creeps in.

Indeed.  OTOH, I'm not convinced it's a bug, since this "bug" was also
the fix for another bug.  It's a change, there's no doubt about that.
Whether it's better or worse is not so clear.

        Stefan