bug#15899: 24.3.50; regression: `region' overlay is lower priority than default

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Isn't it confusing that the region highlighting is non-contiguous when
>> an overlay is in its middle?
>
> 1- you need more than "an overlay in its middle": you need this overlay
>    to put a face property that happens to completely cancel the region's
>    own face properties (since the `face' properties of overlapping
>    overlays are merged).
> 2- I don't think it's particularly confusing, no.  Usually the context
>    makes it pretty clear, and if the user is surprised at some point,
>    that surprise will most likely not last very long.
> So, no, I don't really think it's a bug.

Closing.

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