Re: precedence in `notmuch-search-line-faces'

[Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>]

I have a slight preference for making it do the comment (ie reverse the
list). My reason is that we have some other cases such as
notmuch-tag-format that apply the first match, so users might be used to
having the specific first and the more general later.

It also has a small advantage of being less disruptive but, given that I
don't think any of us realised it changed, I guess most people aren't
using multiple matches.

Best wishes

Mark



On Fri, 02 May 2014, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> The documentation for `notmuch-search-line-faces' says:
>
>> The attributes defined for matching tags are merged, with later
>> attributes overriding earlier.
>
> A comment in `notmuch-search-color-line', which implements this, says:
>
>> ;; Reverse the list so earlier entries take precedence
>
> Clearly these two are at odds. The implementation of
> `notmuch-search-color-line' follows the comment. That is, earlier
> entries in the list take precedence.
>
> The original implementation of `notmuch-search-color-line' followed the
> documentation of the user-visible variable, but this was changed by
> commit 60ebc849 in July 2012.
>
> I'm inclined to go with the documentation and change the implementation,
> but this could obviously ruin things for some users until they reorder
> their settings.
>
> Thoughts?
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