RE: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

[Drew Adams]

>>>> Region highlighting should never be overridden by font-lock
>>>> highlighting.
>>> 
>>> You can configure Emacs to act that way.
>>
>> Emacs should act that way by default, as it always has.
> 
> "Always" as in "ever since 24.3", that is. 'enuf said,

Really?  I don't see font-lock highlighting overriding region
highlighting in Emacs 23, 22, 21, or 20 either.  And I don't
recall it ever doing so for Emacs back to The Beginning.