Mouse face changes foreground on hover

[clemera]

As reported by @haji-ali here:

But when I hover with the mouse, the foreground color changes depending on the foreground color of the character that the mouse was hovering before!

[haji-ali]

Apologies, it turned out this is not a selectrum "issue".

Reading more about mouse-face, the face of a candidate is simply overridden when the mouse hovers over it including any segments that might have a different face. Hence why any forground colors are gone while a line is highlighted. The strange part is the fact that in my case the forground color of the highlighted candidate depends on the previously highlighted candidate; but this might be just be a bug in my setup.

[clemera]

The strange part is the fact that in my case the forground color of the highlighted candidate depends on the previously highlighted candidate; but this might be just be a bug in my setup.

When I tried I had the same behavior. Might have something to do with using and overlay + the display property used by marginalia we had other display issues with this combination, too.

[apc]

From what I can tell, the issue has nothing to do with selectrum (as @haji-ali notes). Note that the same thing happens in an org-agenda view, e.g.: mouse-face simply overrides the foreground of the face on any item. See e.g.

vs.

(this is what happens when the mouse hovers over that item).

[bdarcus]

Maybe someone should report it as a bug to emacs?

[cyrus-and]

Before opening a new issue, I figured I could ask here. Since there's this inconsistency (bug or not), would it be possible to make selectrum-current-candidate behave in the same way, i.e., to override the existing foreground? IMHO it's a nice thing to have nevertheless.