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Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property
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Joe Wells |
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Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:59:49 +0000 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Also text-properties should not affect before/after-strings.
>> Except of course that text properties inside the string itself should
>> have an effect.
>
> Indeed.
>
>>> I believe the
>>> most obviously sensible rule is to follow the precedence that we always use:
>>> - overlays take precedence over text-properties
>
>> I'll assume by “text-properties” you mean “text properties in the
>> buffer”.
>
> Indeed.
>
>>> - overlays of higher priority take precedence over overlays of lower
>>> priority
>
>> Does the higher priority overlay need to entirely contain the
>> lower-priority overlay to have an effect?
>
> No. Note that these rules are general rules about how overlays and
> text-properties interact.
Suppose overlay o2 has higher priority than overlay o1 and covers only
part of overlay o1. Does o2's face affect o1's display property?
>> What if the overlays partially overlap, but neither contains the
>> other?
>
> In general, this makes no difference...
What about overlays' display properties?
>> Suppose the end of overlay o2 is the same as the start of
>> overlay o1: Can overlay o2's face affect overlay o1's before-string?
>
> .. in the case of (before|after)-strings, interpreting what this rule
What is “this rule” here?
> implies is trickier, but I guess it'd be something like:
>
> the overlays that apply to an (before|after)-string are those that
> have higher precedence than the string's overlay and that would apply
> to text inserted at that position in the buffer.
I like this (at least for before-string and after-string, it is not
clear what happens for overlay display properties).
>>> - for overlays of equal priority if one overlay covers the other it takes
>>> precedence
>
>> So covering an overlay is like having higher priority?
>
> Yes.
>
>> What if the two overlays have the same extent?
>
> Then this rule doesn't apply and the next one (the catch-all)
> applies instead.
I don't understand why “this rule” doesn't apply in this case. Can
you explain?
>>> - for the other cases of equal priority, any arbitrary choice is OK as long
>>> as it's deterministic
>>>
>>> Given this, a (before|after)-string should only be affected by
>>> invisible|face properties set by overlays of higher precedence: not by
>>> text-properties, not be overlays of lower precedence.
>
>> So you propose things work by “precedence” which is derived from
>> “priority” and “covering”?
>
> Not quite: instead I described how it currently works in general, and
> I suggest that we solve our problem w.r.t (before|after)-string by
> trying to extrapolate from the existing rules.
>
> I'm not 100% sure the result will be the most convenient in every single
> case, but at least it will have the advantage of being conceptually clean.
Can you write down the full proposed rule set in plain English? I'm
getting lost trying to follow.
--
Joe
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, (continued)
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Stefan Monnier, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, David Kastrup, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Joe Wells, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, David Kastrup, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Joe Wells, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Joe Wells, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Stefan Monnier, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property,
Joe Wells <=
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/06
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Joe Wells, 2007/11/05
- Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/05
Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/04
Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property, Stefan Monnier, 2007/11/03