bug#25906: 25.1; strange behavior of overlapped mouse-face

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net,  25906@debbugs.gnu.org,  ynyaaa@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:36:49 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > That would be the wrong thing to do, IMO.  The mouse-face is not just
> > any face, it is designed for showing an "active region" of text, where
> > mouse gestures produce certain effects.  Such region is also customary
> > has a help-echo defined to show the appropriate tooltip.  It therefore
> > makes no sense to merge mouse-face definitions that come from several
> > different sources, because there could be only one action that will
> > happen upon those mouse gestures, and mixing several help-echo texts
> > makes no sense either.  So Emacs shows only one mouse-face of several
> > possible ones.
> 
> Makes sense to me, thanks.

No further comments, so I'm marking this bug done.

Thanks.