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Re: How do I give an overlay a priority lower to that of hl-line-mode?
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: How do I give an overlay a priority lower to that of hl-line-mode? |
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Tue, 31 May 2016 16:46:29 -0400 |
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On 2016-05-31 16:28, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> What alternatives do I have? (In fact, do I have any?)
>
> Alternatives:
Thanks Stefan!
> - use text-properties instead of overlays.
Could work, indeed. Though adding and removing faces in text properties is
trickier.
> - 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.
Oh, neat :) Do you know in which version this was introduced?
> - use a negative priority.
Does this just behave like positive priorities, in practice?
Clément.
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