From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp manual issues regarding overlays, display properties, margins, etc. Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:57:26 +0100 Message-ID: <86sl4uwwe1.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> References: <86d4w2y1ej.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <863awxxw80.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191261473 31891 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2007 17:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 01 19:57:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcPWW-0000Ms-Es for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:57:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPWS-0000k1-HT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPWP-0000iz-R4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPWN-0000hH-U6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPWN-0000h9-OD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.13.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcPWK-0002Le-B4; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:28 -0400 Original-Received: from lxultra1.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.27.173]:36906 helo=127.0.0.1) by izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.51) id 1IcPWJ-0005IO-3M; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0100 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 3683 invoked by uid 1001); Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:57:26 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 01 Oct 2007 13\:40\:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16678 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Can this please be documented? Both that no ?priority? property (or a > value of nil) is equivalent to a value of 0, > > Ok, will do. Thanks! > and how priority works > for overlays with the same priority. > > I am not sure which overlay wins when they have the same priority > and same span. I think it is better not to depend on that. Can this please be stated in the manual? -- Joe