Re: Hl-line and visual-line

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> At a first glance, that would be cool.  I like hl-line-mode, but I have
>> to disable it in some modes, because the hl-line-overlay's face
>> overrides the normal font-lock face
>
> Fixing that would mean introducing some feature that will allow you to
> request that an overlay's priority is below text properties.  That
> sounds like a simpler change (we have negative priority values vacant
> for that, I think) than pushing line highlight to the level of the
> basic redisplay.


Could we please make the change to have overlays with negative
priority below text? I have asked for this several times. What is
holding it back?