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29.0.91; Eglot inlay hints rendered out of order

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: kklimonda <at> syntaxhighlighted.com, 64101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#64101: 29.0.91; Eglot inlay hints rendered out of order
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 16:17:21 +0300

> From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: kklimonda <at> syntaxhighlighted.com,  64101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:19:18 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Emacs 29 comes with a completely different implementation of overlays
> > than previous versions.
> >
> > I don't think this is specific to macOS, but perhaps the order in
> > which overlays are arranged is arbitrary to some extent, in which case
> > different systems can have different orders.
> 
> I would find this "undefined order" strange, and perhaps a bug in
> itself.  Maybe whoever rewrote the overlay code (Stefan?) could chime
> in.

It wasn't Stefan, he just merged the branch to master and fixed bugs.

But why do you say this is a bug?  Does any documentation promise any
particular order of overlays?

> In any case, one defensive option is to push the patch I showed to Emacs
> 29.  Subject, of course, to testing on at least some machine where the
> problem does indeed happen.

Yes, let's wait for the confirmation that it fixes the problem.

Thanks.

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