Subject: bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays

From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 14:51:55 -0500

On 2017-02-05 14:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 14:10:40 -0500
>>
>>> What will happen if you have 2 overlays like this:
>>>
>>>                +------------- OV2 -------+
>>>    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>    +------- OV1 ---------+
>>>
>>> and OV2 has a higher priority than OV1?
>>
>> The two overlays get sorted as (OV1 OV2).
> 
> But OV2 has a higher priority, so it should be the first in the sorted
> order, no?

I process them in order of increasing priority, so OV1 gets processed first.