Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist

[James Clark]

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 06:23, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     - the code gives the new properties priority over the existing
>     properties
> 
> That is the intended behavior of the feature; I don't want to change
> that.

I haven't been able to think of a case where this behavior would be
useful.  Do you have something in mind?  It seems to be that, in the
context of the mode-line, the other way round would be more useful: if
the user has gone to the trouble of putting local-map or help-echo
properties on a string destined for the mode-line, then they won't want
those properties overridden by some containing :propertize element. If
you think of :propertize as being a declarative description of the
desired properties rather than as a function call, then given something
like

`(:propertize (propertize: ,(propertize s p1) ,p2) ,p3)

it's more natural and useful for p1 to have priority over p2 which
should in turn have priority over p3.

James