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authorStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2010-10-01 01:05:26 +0200
committerStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2010-10-01 01:05:26 +0200
commit55586d2a88c1273958893da1e17979a3e7a89691 (patch)
tree076d73b04841ac6c1e737589eaaf069f6211fab0 /lisp
parent39e266f9bb060e76f58e719d6860afb5daed4ece (diff)
downloademacs-55586d2a88c1273958893da1e17979a3e7a89691.tar.gz
* lisp/minibuffer.el (completion--replace): Better preserve markers.
Fixes: debbugs:7138
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog9
-rw-r--r--lisp/minibuffer.el22
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 22cc8f3a3ed..696941f93cd 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-09-30 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+ * minibuffer.el (completion--replace):
+ Better preserve markers (bug#7138).
+
2010-09-29 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
* server.el (server-process-filter): Doc fix.
@@ -10,8 +15,8 @@
* Makefile.in (ELCFILES): Update.
- * emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el (byte-optimize-form-code-walker): Avoid
- infinite recursion on erroneous lambda form. (Bug#7114)
+ * emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el (byte-optimize-form-code-walker):
+ Avoid infinite recursion on erroneous lambda form. (Bug#7114)
2010-09-27 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
index 93a222053f6..9a477020421 100644
--- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
+++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
@@ -475,10 +475,30 @@ in the last `cdr'."
(defun completion--replace (beg end newtext)
"Replace the buffer text between BEG and END with NEWTEXT.
Moves point to the end of the new text."
- ;; This should be in subr.el.
+ ;; Maybe this should be in subr.el.
;; You'd think this is trivial to do, but details matter if you want
;; to keep markers "at the right place" and be robust in the face of
;; after-change-functions that may themselves modify the buffer.
+ (let ((prefix-len 0))
+ ;; Don't touch markers in the shared prefix (if any).
+ (while (and (< prefix-len (length newtext))
+ (< (+ beg prefix-len) end)
+ (eq (char-after (+ beg prefix-len))
+ (aref newtext prefix-len)))
+ (setq prefix-len (1+ prefix-len)))
+ (unless (zerop prefix-len)
+ (setq beg (+ beg prefix-len))
+ (setq newtext (substring newtext prefix-len))))
+ (let ((suffix-len 0))
+ ;; Don't touch markers in the shared suffix (if any).
+ (while (and (< suffix-len (length newtext))
+ (< beg (- end suffix-len))
+ (eq (char-before (- end suffix-len))
+ (aref newtext (- (length newtext) suffix-len 1))))
+ (setq suffix-len (1+ suffix-len)))
+ (unless (zerop suffix-len)
+ (setq end (- end suffix-len))
+ (setq newtext (substring newtext 0 (- suffix-len)))))
(goto-char beg)
(insert newtext)
(delete-region (point) (+ (point) (- end beg))))