GNU bug report logs - #33256
nxml-mode completion of attribute no longer adds =" after emacs 26

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Martin Fowler <martinfowlercom <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 17:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: unreproducible

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Martin Fowler <martinfowlercom <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33256: nxml-mode completion of attribute no longer adds =" after emacs 26
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 23:48:45 -0400

tags 33256 + unreproducible
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Martin Fowler <martinfowlercom <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I've used nxml-mode for a long time. When typing in an xml attribute
> and using completion, emacs would respond by completing the attribute
> and also adding =" to allow me to immediately type the value of the
> xml attribute. I recently upgraded to emacs 26, and it now only
> completes the attribute hame. The original completion behavior (adding
> =") is described in the manual at
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/nxml-mode/Completion.html>
> .
>
> To replicate
>
> - open an html file in nxml mode
> - ensure it's tied to the html schema file 
> - type "<html xmln"
> - trigger completion (C-M-i, or whatever calls completion-at-point)
>
> expected behavior (pre emacs 26)
>
> line shows:
>
>     <html xmlns="
>
> actual behavior, line shows
>
>    <html xmlns

I can't reproduce this exactly, with 26.1 and later I get

     <html xmlns="-!-"

(where -!- represents point).  While the doc does say there should only
be an opening quote added, this is arguably an improvement, so...
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