Re: Wrong common substring highlighted in Completion buffer

[Juri Linkov]

I also noticed that after using M-TAB in a Lisp buffer and selecting
a completion from the *Completion* buffer, highlighting from the
common substring is copied to the original buffer.  This can be fixed
by the following patch.

Index: lisp/simple.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/simple.el,v
retrieving revision 1.778
diff -c -r1.778 simple.el
*** lisp/simple.el      10 Dec 2005 01:12:25 -0000      1.778
--- lisp/simple.el      12 Dec 2005 07:43:55 -0000
***************
*** 4744,4750 ****
        (error "No completion here"))
      (setq beg (previous-single-property-change beg 'mouse-face))
      (setq end (or (next-single-property-change end 'mouse-face) (point-max)))
!     (setq completion (buffer-substring beg end))
      (let ((owindow (selected-window)))
        (if (and (one-window-p t 'selected-frame)
               (window-dedicated-p (selected-window)))
--- 4744,4750 ----
        (error "No completion here"))
      (setq beg (previous-single-property-change beg 'mouse-face))
      (setq end (or (next-single-property-change end 'mouse-face) (point-max)))
!     (setq completion (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end))
      (let ((owindow (selected-window)))
        (if (and (one-window-p t 'selected-frame)
               (window-dedicated-p (selected-window)))

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/