From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I give an overlay a priority lower to that of hl-line-mode?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:46:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <574DF825.1090608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4m9em0zq.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
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On 2016-05-31 16:28, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> What alternatives do I have? (In fact, do I have any?)
>
> Alternatives:
Thanks Stefan!
> - use text-properties instead of overlays.
Could work, indeed. Though adding and removing faces in text properties is trickier.
> - undocumented and tentatively added in recentish Emacsen you can use
> a priority of the form (nil . -100). Which means: normal priority nil
> in general, but priority -100 when the normal priority rules (which
> look at the relative size of overlays) don't have a preference
> use -100.
Oh, neat :) Do you know in which version this was introduced?
> - use a negative priority.
Does this just behave like positive priorities, in practice?
Clément.
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2016-05-31 4:46 How do I give an overlay a priority lower to that of hl-line-mode? Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-05-31 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-31 20:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-06-01 2:29 ` Stefan Monnier
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