bug#11840: 24.1.50; nil keymap element on high priority overlay should fallthrough to low priority overlay

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Christopher Monsanto <chris@monsan.to> writes:

> One more symptom, and I doubt this could be anything but a bug: if you
> delete the high priority overlay, we *still* don't use the lower
> priority overlay's keymap!
>
> Try this:
>
> (setq m (make-sparse-keymap))
> (define-key m "k" '(lambda nil (interactive) (message "overlay 1")))
>
> (setq m2 (make-sparse-keymap))
> (define-key m2 "k" nil)
>
> (let ((o (make-overlay 0 5))
>       (o2 (make-overlay 0 5)))
>   (overlay-put o 'keymap m)
>   (overlay-put o 'priority 100)
>   (overlay-put o2 'keymap m2)
>   (overlay-put o2 'priority 9999)
>   (delete-overlay o2))
>
> eval-buffer again, and k self inserts. If we never create the second
> overlay, it prints the msg.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 28 -- if I hit `k', I get the
message (as expected).  Are you still seeing this issue in recent Emacs
versions?

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