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24.4.50; Cursor interferes with underline and bold of overlapping overlays.

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From: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.50;
 Cursor interferes with underline and bold of overlapping overlays. 
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:55:02 -0700

When the cursor touches two (2) overlapping overlays, an incorrect display occurs under the following example:

* Both overlays contain the same priority, or no assigned priority.

* First overlay: . . . 'face '(:foreground "red" :weight bold)

* Second overlay . . . 'face '(:underline "yellow" :weight normal)

[The same result also happens if the bolded foreground face is a glpyh in the `buffer-display-table`, and where only one (1) overlay contains a *normal* weight underline.  So, this issue does not appear to be exclusive to only the presence of overlapping overlays.]

The desired result is a bold foreground for the text, and a normal weight underline.  That result can be achieved if the cursor does not touch the overlapping overlays.  Once the cursor has touched the overlapping overlays, however, the underline takes on a *bold* visual attribute.  This improper *bold* attribute may extend for the entire length of the overlay, depending upon which direction the cursor is moving and other overlays that may be present.

I was not able to correct this situation by setting priorities.  In my various tests, setting priorities only served to choose one overlay over the other -- i.e., setting priorities do not permit the overlays to co-exist in harmony.

The thread that I opened on Stackoverflow contains some screen shots and a recipe to reproduce the error.  It is not necessary to use flyspell or hl-line-mode to reproduce the error, that was simply the example I chose because it is the one where I always see the error.  Perhaps the reason why the initial test by @Drew may not have yielded the same result is that his cursor was not touching "mal-normal" -- had his cursor touched that section of the buffer, the same result as I experienced may have occurred.  I also use OSX, but it may not be an OS specific issue.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24313953/overlays-how-to-prevent-bold-faces-from-trumping-non-bold-faces

Here is the recipe -- just adjust the path to the `ispell-program-name`:

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;; GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0,
;; NS appkit-1038.36 Version 10.6.8 (Build 10K549)) of 2014-06-01 on MP.local

(set-face-attribute 'default nil
  :background "black" :foreground "white" :font "Courier" :height 180)

(tool-bar-mode -1)

(require 'ispell)

(require 'flyspell)

(setq-default ispell-program-name
    "/Users/HOME/.0.data/.0.emacs/elpa/bin/aspell")

(custom-set-faces
  '(flyspell-incorrect ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold ))))
  '(highlight ((t (:underline "red" :weight normal)))))

(defun zoom ()
(interactive)
  (setq buffer-face-mode-face `(:height 575))
  (buffer-face-mode 1))

(defun test-number-one ()
(interactive)
  (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "test-number-ONE"))
  (zoom)
  (turn-on-flyspell)
  (setq flyspell-mark-duplications-flag nil)
  (setq flyspell-duplicate-distance 0)
  (hl-line-mode 1)
  (insert
    "This is `test-number-one`."
    "\n"
    "\n"
    "aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ"
    "\n"
    "\n"
    "aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ"))

(defun test-number-two ()
(interactive)
  (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "test-number-TWO"))
  (zoom)
  (hl-line-mode 1)
  (insert
    "This is `test-number-two`."
    "\n"
    "\n"
    "aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ"
    "\n"
    "\n"
    "aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ"))

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Thanks,

Keith

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Message #8 received at 17824 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: 17824 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17824: 24.4.50; Cursor interferes with underline and bold
 of overlapping overlays. 
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:51:20 +0100

Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com> writes:

> When the cursor touches two (2) overlapping overlays, an incorrect
> display occurs under the following example:
>
> * Both overlays contain the same priority, or no assigned priority.
>
> * First overlay: . . . 'face '(:foreground "red" :weight bold)
>
> * Second overlay . . . 'face '(:underline "yellow" :weight normal)

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

> Here is the recipe -- just adjust the path to the
> `ispell-program-name`:

The recipe is somewhat convoluted, and I wasn't able to make it work
here.  Do you have a simpler recipe?  Since the issue seems to deal with
just the priority of some overlays, using aspell, fonts and hl shouldn't
be necessary?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #13 received at 17824 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: 17824 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17824: 24.4.50; Cursor interferes with underline and bold
 of overlapping overlays. 
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 05:29:19 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> The recipe is somewhat convoluted, and I wasn't able to make it work
> here.  Do you have a simpler recipe?  Since the issue seems to deal with
> just the priority of some overlays, using aspell, fonts and hl shouldn't
> be necessary?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
month, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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