Re: gnus-summary-highlight should use overlays?

[KGreiner@xpediantsolutions.com]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Because of the gnus-agent-downloaded-article-face overriding other
> summary highlights, I was wondering if perhaps gnus-summary-highlight
> should use overlays (on Emacs, at least) instead of text properties
> for the face.  That way, we could have one overlay for each entry in
> gnus-summary-highlight which matches, and the resultant face would be
> the composition of the matching faces.  I presume XEmacs could do the
> same thing, somehow.
>
> How does that sound?

Just to let you know, I've already rewritten this code to address
feedback from other users.  The code is ready for check-in, just
waiting for some feedback on a couple of private questions.

The changes and the concerns that they address are:
  1) The current gnus-agent-downloaded-article-face currently displays
     when an article was fetched.  The new agent article face will be
     applied when an article has NOT been fetched.  The idea being
     that the fetched status should be fairly low priority.

  2) The gnus-agent-downloaded-article-face stepped on the
     high/normal/low score faces.  There are actually three new agent
     article faces.  They provide the same high/normal/low score
     indicator as usual with a background color indicating that the
     articles have not been fetched.

Will this help with the overriding problem that you are seeing?

Kevin