From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17234: 24.3.50; overlay priority : cons cells make an error in ediff Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:08:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppkot3n5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878urdmvr0.fsf@yahoo.fr> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397221770 26749 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2014 13:09:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17234@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 11 15:09:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbCn-0000ul-8c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:09:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbCm-0005eO-NN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbCd-0005VZ-Q1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbCY-0002yT-Ke for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37117) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbCY-0002yO-9l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbCY-0003rP-0Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:09:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17234 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 17234-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17234.139722172014782 (code B ref 17234); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17234) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Apr 2014 13:08:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45274 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbCA-0003qG-DZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:58006) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbC7-0003ps-WD for 17234@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N3V00400AWFP000@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 17234@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:08:29 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N3V0037IB65ZD80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:08:29 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:87944 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:30:33 -0400 > Cc: 17234@debbugs.gnu.org > > >> [...] the notion of the "priority" of an overlay was changed : it can > >> now be a cons cell (which holds a priority and a secondary priority). > > [...] > >> At (info "(elisp) Overlay Properties") however it is said that the > >> priority "should be a non-negative integer". > > What about the documentation/NEWS aspect? > > The new feature was introduced specifically for the region handling, and > I'm not yet convinced I'm satisfied with it, so I'd rather not > document it for now. Then how can we expect authors of other Lisp packages to be able to fix their code so it works with Emacs 24.4 and later? We must say _something_ in NEWS.