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-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--lisp/minibuffer.el8
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 44190993887..c3b28cd8777 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2012-03-10 Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
+ * minibuffer.el (completion-in-region, completion-help-at-point):
+ Give the completion field overlay a high priority (Bug#6830).
+
* dired.el (dired-goto-file): Recognize absolute file name
listings (Bug#7126).
(dired-goto-file-1): New helper function.
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
index 1fdf33bf610..1a1a37258c4 100644
--- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
+++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
@@ -1483,10 +1483,13 @@ exit."
(minibuffer-completion-predicate predicate)
(ol (make-overlay start end nil nil t)))
(overlay-put ol 'field 'completion)
+ ;; HACK: if the text we are completing is already in a field, we
+ ;; want the completion field to take priority (e.g. Bug#6830).
+ (overlay-put ol 'priority 100)
(when completion-in-region-mode-predicate
(completion-in-region-mode 1)
(setq completion-in-region--data
- (list (current-buffer) start end collection)))
+ (list (current-buffer) start end collection)))
(unwind-protect
(call-interactively 'minibuffer-complete)
(delete-overlay ol)))))
@@ -1653,9 +1656,10 @@ The completion method is determined by `completion-at-point-functions'."
;; introduce a corresponding hook (plus another for word-completion,
;; and another for force-completion, maybe?).
(overlay-put ol 'field 'completion)
+ (overlay-put ol 'priority 100)
(completion-in-region-mode 1)
(setq completion-in-region--data
- (list (current-buffer) start end collection))
+ (list (current-buffer) start end collection))
(unwind-protect
(call-interactively 'minibuffer-completion-help)
(delete-overlay ol))))