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26.1; Region highlight has lower priority than flymake overlays

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Message #20 received at 34022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 34022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, johann <at> jklaehn.de
Subject: Re: 26.1; Region highlight has lower priority than flymake overlays
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:14:52 +0200

> From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Johann Klähn <johann <at> jklaehn.de>, 34022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:33:33 +0000
> 
> In Flymake multiple overlays (error, warning, note) can overlap and
> priorities are used so that an error is never hidden by a note.  I based
> thosed priorities in the 100's range (so note = 101, warning=102,
> error=103, sth like that). 100 was a number chosen quite arbitrarily
> which worked fine until Johann noticed the bug (I do think it's a bug).

Would it still DTRT if you use priorities around 50?

> >In particular, how is Flymake different from any other package which
> >uses overlays to mark portions of text?
> 
> Perhaps it isn't.  Can you point me to other packages that leave
> persistent region-resisting overlays in the buffer?

Wht do you mean by "region-resisting"?

> (or that "play nice" with the region, for some meaning of "nice").

What is the meaning of "playing nice" in this context?

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