GNU bug report logs - #55205
28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>

Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 08:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1.50

Done: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de, larsi <at> gnus.org, 55205 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates
Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 20:39:12 +0300

> Cc: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, 55205 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 13:07:31 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> I think it's safe enough for `emacs-28`, but I can't claim it's
> "obviously safe", the way I could about that same `copy-sequence` in
> `cl-generic.el`.

I can: it isn't.  Changes in the bowels of completion, in code that
worked like that for 10 years, safe for the release branch? really?
This bug report was last modified 233 days ago.

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