GNU bug report logs - #9663
23.2; feature wish: put priority on vcursor overlay

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Hendrik Tews <hendrik <at> askra.de>

Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 23.2

Fixed in version 24.2

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 9663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Hendrik Tews <tews <at> os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>, 9663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9663: 23.2; feature wish: put priority on vcursor overlay
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:19:49 -0400

>    same priority. Which makes me wonder: why other overlay have
>    you bumped into which has either higher priority than nil, or
>    nil priority but is not larger than vcursor.
   
> As I wrote in the feature wish: the locked region in Proof
> General (proof-locked-span). It has priority 100, see the call to
> span-raise inside proof-init-segmentation in
> generic/proof-script.el.

I'm not sure why ProofGeneral messes with priorities, tho.  Nor why it
chooses 100 as the "default raised priority", nor "raised with respect
to what".
The way I see it, overlay priorities are very little used and are fairly
problematic, so I'd rather recommend not to use them.


        Stefan
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