GNU bug report logs - #62700
29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>

Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 17:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.60

Fixed in version 30.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 62700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh <at> catern.com
Subject: bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:42:26 +0200

close 62700 30.0.50
thanks

>> For example, with (setq completion-use-base-affixes t)
>> if there is some text in the current buffer after point,
>> then typing 'M-C-i' and selecting a candidate to insert to the buffer,
>> it replaces all the text after point with an empty string.
>>
>> Before this change, the suffix was set to the text after point,
>> and after inserting the selected candidate the suffix was
>> re-inserted to the same buffer.
>
> Here is a patch that should support 'completion-in-region':

Pushed to master now.
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