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-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--lisp/minibuffer.el19
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 29d8e2bf80d..516c4f65462 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-04-30 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+ * minibuffer.el (completion--do-completion): Move point even if the
+ completion makes no change.
+ (completion-pcm-try-completion): Fix computation of new point.
+
2008-04-30 David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
* dired.el: Require 'cl.
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
index f3c95df3f31..21988d823a2 100644
--- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
+++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
@@ -360,8 +360,9 @@ E = after completion we now have an Exact match.
;; Insert in minibuffer the chars we got.
(goto-char end)
(insert completion)
- (delete-region beg end)
- (goto-char (+ beg comp-pos)))
+ (delete-region beg end))
+ ;; Move point.
+ (goto-char (+ beg comp-pos))
(if (not (or unchanged completed))
;; The case of the string changed, but that's all. We're not sure
@@ -1283,13 +1284,17 @@ PATTERN is as returned by `completion-pcm--string->pattern'."
(all (completion-pcm--all-completions pattern table pred)))
(when all
(let* ((mergedpat (completion-pcm--merge-completions all pattern))
- ;; `mergedpat' is in reverse order.
- (pointpat (or (memq 'point mergedpat) (memq 'any mergedpat)))
- ;; New pos from the end.
+ ;; `mergedpat' is in reverse order. Place new point (by
+ ;; order of preference) either at the old point, or at
+ ;; the last place where there's something to choose, or
+ ;; at the very end.
+ (pointpat (or (memq 'point mergedpat) (memq 'any mergedpat)
+ margedpat))
+ ;; New pos from the start.
(newpos (length (completion-pcm--pattern->string pointpat)))
- ;; Do it afterwards because it changes `pointpat' by sideeffect.
+ ;; Do it afterwards because it changes `pointpat' by sideeffect.
(merged (completion-pcm--pattern->string (nreverse mergedpat))))
- (cons merged (- (length merged) newpos))))))
+ (cons merged newpos)))))
(provide 'minibuffer)