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donkey 1.14.1 — a banked line no longer disappears under hl-line-mode
A bug fix release, from a report that banking looked broken in a
configuration with the current-line highlight turned on.
It was. m l puts a line aside and highlights it, and hl-line-mode
draws a band across the line point is on. Both are overlays, both
cover exactly the same whole line, and both sat at priority -50.
Emacs is explicit about that case: when two overlays share a priority
and neither is nested in the other, which one shows is not something
you may assume. So the bank you had just made was there or it was not,
decided by nothing either package controls — measured over 200 banks
in a stock Emacs, the band hid the bank 116 times, and in one real
configuration 55 times in 100.
Fixed — you will notice these
m l— a banked line shows its own highlight whenever
hl-line-modeorglobal-hl-line-modeis on. It used to show it
about half the time and show the current-line band the rest, with
nothing to tell you which run you were in; a line you had banked
simply looked unbanked. Nothing else about banking changed: the
keys, the counts, the messages, and whaty,dandpspend are
all as they were, and a line that is both banked and selected still
shows the selection.
Under the hood
- A bank now sits at overlay priority
-25, between the current-line
band at-50and the region. Two other highlights live in that band
and are drawn under a bank as a result: the current lineguddraws
while debugging, which is off unless you set
gud-highlight-current-line, and thenext-errormessage
highlight, which is transient. Everything else in stock Emacs sits
above a bank and is unaffected. - Two tests pin the new order: one that the band cannot hide a bank in
either creation order, one that a bank cannot hide the live
selection.
Upgrading
Nothing to do. No option, key or command changed.