Subject: bug#71282: 30.0.50; hl-line overlay priority has no affect

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:28:23 +0300

> From: Mohsin Kaleem <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:18:31 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > I don't think it's a "problem".  Overlay strings have their own faces,
> > and those override the faces of buffer text.
> 
> Yes, but hl-line is meant to overlay all of that no?

Maybe that's what hl-line wants to do (and I'm not sure even that is
correct), but doing that is impossible in Emacs, not with a single
overlay on the line's text.  Emacs simply doesn't support that, never
did.