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29.0.60; pcomplete-completions-at-point loses text properties, breaking pcomplete-from-help annotations

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Liu Hui <liuhui1610 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "mail <at> daniel-mendler.de" <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, 61283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61283: 29.0.60; pcomplete-completions-at-point loses text
 properties, breaking pcomplete-from-help annotations
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 10:04:15 -0400

> diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
> index a3dc1b0cfbf..b0c32b938a0 100644
> --- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
> +++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
> @@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ completion--twq-all
>             ;;  (concat (substring ustring 0 boundary)
>             ;;          completion))
>             ;; t)
> +                   (add-text-properties 0 1 (text-properties-at 0
> completion) qcompletion)
>                     qcompletion))
>                 completions)
>         qboundary))))
>
> It just re-adds text properties to completions produced by
> `completion-table-with-quoting', but I'm not sure it is the proper
> fix.  What do you think?

For some properties, this may do The Wrong Thing :-(
E.g. it could copy some `display` properties to an unrelated part of
the text.


        Stefan

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