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25.0.94; todo-mode breaks minibuffer-complete-word

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: 23695 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23695: 25.0.94; todo-mode breaks minibuffer-complete-word
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:18:46 +0200

0. emacs -Q
1. Sanity check: Typing e.g. `C-h f url- SPC' should pop up a
   *Completions* buffer showing functions beginning with "url-", since
   SPC in the minibuffer is bound to minibuffer-complete-word.
2. C-g to exit the minibuffer, then, if you have no files made by
   todo-mode (i.e. no directory ~/.emacs.d/todo), type `M-x todo-show
   RET RET RET RET RET' (accepting defaults) to create a todo file with
   a category and an entry.
3. Type `q' to quit todo-mode (optional) and redo step 1.
=> Upon typing SPC this time, instead of getting the *Completions*
   buffer, a space is inserted in the minibuffer after "url-".

If at step 2 you already have one or more todo-files, then invoking a
number of todo-mode commands, e.g. `j' to jump to another category or
`C a' to add a new category, will likewise globally change the effect of
all subsequent uses of SPC in the minibuffer.

The patch below fixes this.  I request approval to push this fix to
emacs-25, since without it, todo-mode-specific behavior changes the
minibuffer behavior in rest of Emacs.  Also, the fix is certainly safe,
since it replaces naively implemented functionality by canonical code to
temporarily change a minibuffer key binding.  (Since I normally don't
use SPC for minibuffer completion but just TAB, I only discovered this
bug yesterday, when I was trying and failed to reproduce bug#23670 in a
session in which I had already used the broken todo-mode function.)

diff --git a/lisp/calendar/todo-mode.el b/lisp/calendar/todo-mode.el
index 8e75258..f0d4bc5 100644
--- a/lisp/calendar/todo-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/calendar/todo-mode.el
@@ -5750,8 +5750,9 @@ todo-read-category
 against categories in that file; otherwise complete against all
 categories from `todo-category-completions-files'."
   ;; Allow SPC to insert spaces, for adding new category names.
-  (let ((map minibuffer-local-completion-map))
-    (define-key map " " nil)
+  (let ((minibuffer-local-completion-map
+         (copy-keymap minibuffer-local-completion-map)))
+    (define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map " " 'self-insert-command)
     (let* ((add (eq match-type 'add))
 	   (archive (eq match-type 'archive))
 	   (file0 (when (and file (> (length todo-files) 1))


In GNU Emacs 25.0.94.8 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.15)
 of 2016-06-05 built on rosalinde
Repository revision: a5d05f447008c4a99d1b00f0af642b4a5ce4cbce
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