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From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25592@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 14:17:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63b6a300-4892-260a-2054-c922485ee192@live.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mvdx6i0s.fsf@gnu.org>


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On 2017-02-07 12:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 25592@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
>> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 14:51:55 -0500
>>
>>>>> What will happen if you have 2 overlays like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>                +------------- OV2 -------+
>>>>>    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>    +------- OV1 ---------+
>>>>>
>>>>> and OV2 has a higher priority than OV1?
>>>>
>>>> The two overlays get sorted as (OV1 OV2).
>>>
>>> But OV2 has a higher priority, so it should be the first in the sorted
>>> order, no?
>>
>> I process them in order of increasing priority, so OV1 gets processed first.
> 
> So you actually apply _all_ of the overlays in the buffer, one by one?
> That's really inefficient.  With my proposal, you'd only need to apply
> at most one overlay at each position where some overlay begins or
> ends, and do that for much fewer text segments.

I think I may have misunderstood your proposal, or failed to express what I was trying to achieve :/  If OV1 has face "(:weight bold)" and OV2 has face "(:slant italic)", I want to save both 'face properties. Can I really do that by applying at most one overlay at each position?

Clément.




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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-07 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-31 20:32 bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-01 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-02 19:41   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-02 20:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-03 15:19       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-03 21:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-03 21:51           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-04  8:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-05 16:21               ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-05 18:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-05 19:10                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-05 19:43                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-05 19:51                       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-07 17:13                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-07 19:17                           ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2017-02-07 19:56                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-07 20:07                               ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-08 17:22                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-09 19:50                                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-03 23:28       ` Johan Bockgård
2017-02-04  8:29         ` Eli Zaretskii

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