From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How do I give an overlay a priority lower to that of hl-line-mode? Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:28:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <574D173F.2070502@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464726513 9074 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2016 20:28:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 20:28:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 22:28:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1b7qH2-00057J-Sv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 22:28:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qH2-0006Pp-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45765) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qGt-0006NV-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qGo-00037G-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qGo-00037A-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qGm-0004w8-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 22:28:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 45.72.195.239 ([45.72.195.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 22:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 45.72.195.239 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 22:28:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.72.195.239 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oQI9kqSJdKzDNSKtLEhPiQUlzNI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204162 Archived-At: > What alternatives do I have? (In fact, do I have any?) Alternatives: - use text-properties instead of overlays. - 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. - use a negative priority. Stefan