From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 16514@debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com
Subject: bug#16514: 24.3.50; Region overlay looks bad on refined hunks in diff-mode
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:56:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eek2aet8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157e9a89-6d6c-1d3e-9308-e81d7442889a@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 6 Dec 2020 21:34:44 +0200)
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 16514@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 21:34:44 +0200
>
> > This is expected, since we sort overlays so that the one whose extent
> > is larger wins.
> >
> > To do anything else the overlays should have priorities.
>
> So it's probably correct from the low-level primitives POV.
>
> But is this a good UI? And shouldn't we maybe tweak the high-level
> implementation (perhaps, the way how the refinements are applied) so
> that the behavior is better?
I agree that the end result is not the best one. If by "tweak the
high-level implementation" you meant something like use priorities for
the relevant overlays, then that's exactly what I tried to hint at.
IOW, yes, we should do something on the application level to cause the
selected region look consistently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-06 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-21 4:44 bug#16514: 24.3.50; Region overlay looks bad on refined hunks in diff-mode Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-06 14:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 15:39 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-06 15:48 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-06 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-06 19:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-06 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-06 16:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-07 13:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
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