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bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays |
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Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:41:21 -0500 |
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On 2017-02-01 08:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
>> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:32:26 -0500
>>
>> Is there a way to get a list of all overlays in a buffer, sorted by priority?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the request. Do you mean that the result of
> this would be a list of overlays, where the first one is the overlay
> of the highest priority _anywhere_ in the buffer, the next one of the
> 2nd highest priority, possibly in an entirely different place in the
> buffer, and so on -- i.e. completely disregarding the overlay
> positions?
Yup, that's what I mean.
> That's a very strange order. Which job(s) need(s) such an
> order, and why?
I'm writing a function that copies overlay properties to text properties. I
reimplemented compare_overlays in ELisp, but that seems brittle.
Cheers,
Clément.
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- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/04
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/05