Highlight priority?

[crides]

In this screenshot, the pprint is highlighted with DianosticUnnecessary (linked to Comment), but semshiImported overwrote it. Is it possible to change the highlight priority so that DianosticUnnecessary is shown?

neovim 0.9.0, with pyright lsp

[wookayin]

Yes, the extmark (buf-local highlight) has different priority: semshi has priority 4096 and diagnostics has a fixed priority 150.

-- vim.api.nvim_buf_get_extmarks(0, -1, 0, -1, {details=true})

{ 1, 4, 0, {
      end_col = 13,
      end_right_gravity = false,
      end_row = 4,
      hl_eol = false,
      hl_group = "DiagnosticUnderlineWarn",
      ns_id = 61,
      priority = 150,
      right_gravity = true
    } }

{ 1, 4, 7, {
      end_col = 13,
      end_right_gravity = false,
      end_row = 4,
      hl_eol = false,
      hl_group = "semshiImported",
      ns_id = 321173,
      priority = 4096,
      right_gravity = true
    } }

From https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/791e400858ae8d32f974b40c4e1c0d54b66f610f:

• treesitter uses the default highlight priority of 50
• diagnostic highlights have a priority of 150
• lsp reference highlights have a priority of 200

So I think it makes sense semshi should use priority around 100. Since semshi uses nvim_buf_add_highlight (which does not support setting priority) instead of nvim_buf_set_extmark, we will need to migrate to the extmark API first.