I mean which overlay will be visible, everything else being equal

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:00:11 +0000
> > From: E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <
> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 13887@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Further evidence suggests that the "t taking precedence" version is
> wrong.
> > It's more probable the the precedence is determined by the order of
> > overlays in some C data-structure.
>
> What do you mean by "precedence"?  AFAIK, there's no precedence in
> handling overlays, unless they have non-nil 'priority' property, in
> which case all the overlays at a given position are sorted according
> to priority before displaying them.
>