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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Christopher Monsanto <chris@monsan.to>
Cc: 11840@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11840: 24.1.50; nil keymap element on high priority overlay should fallthrough to low priority overlay
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:39:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfw9atei4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC5n7TEJ0SO9zie9s0pc20ZT8Nc6XvVSTfsvFG2HLTa7c=vMuw@mail.gmail.com> (Christopher Monsanto's message of "Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:25:31 -0400")

> One more symptom, and I doubt this could be anything but a bug: if you
> delete the high priority overlay, we *still* don't use the lower
> priority overlay's keymap!

This is a limitation of the way properties are "merged".
More specifically, in most cases properties coming from different
overlays (and from text-properties) are *not* merged.  Instead, the
property of the highest-priority overlay is used.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-02 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-02  3:21 bug#11840: 24.1.50; nil keymap element on high priority overlay should fallthrough to low priority overlay Christopher Monsanto
2012-07-02  3:25 ` Christopher Monsanto
2012-07-02 14:39   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-07-02 16:32     ` Christopher Monsanto
2012-07-02 18:21       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-07 17:36   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-06  9:33     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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