bug#15298: 24.3.50; Background color lost when highlighting a string

["Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I thought that faces were just added one onto the other, but that the
>> problem could happen because the order is not the one we expected.
>
> There's another issue at play, here: by default, a rule is only applied
> if the matched text has not already been highlighted by an earlier rule.

Do I understand correctly that the presented problem can't be fixed,
then?

To restate it,

1. I have defined some Org faces like this (in my custom theme):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  `(org-headline-done ((,class (:height 1.0 :weight normal :foreground "#999999"))))
  `(org-link ((,class (:underline t :foreground "#006DAF"))))
  `(org-table ((,class (:foreground "dark green" :background "#EAFFEA"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

2. When I set a task DONE, or when I insert a link inside a table, I
   loose some highlighting properties.

See image http://screencast.com/t/mRdBszsssJ for the example:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** TODO This text does surimpose on the green background

*** DONE When a task is done, its background becomes white!

|      | Normal text  | 10 |
| link | http://www/  | 11 |
|      | Other things | 12 |
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban