* lisp/minibuffer.el (completion-table-with-quoting) <completion--unquote>:

Make sure the new point we return is within the new string.

Fixes: debbugs:17239

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index e1a0ee66dd7..bef5f1ba71f 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-05-05  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+        * minibuffer.el (completion-table-with-quoting) <completion--unquote>:
+        Make sure the new point we return is within the new string (bug#17239).
+
 2014-05-03  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
         * mail/rmailsum.el (rmail-new-summary-1): Fix a typo in a comment.
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
index 9dd4ef9fe04..87ba8a22e64 100644
--- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
+++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
@@ -519,11 +519,35 @@ for use at QPOS."
         completions))
 
      ((eq action 'completion--unquote)
-      (let ((ustring (funcall unquote string))
-            (uprefix (funcall unquote (substring string 0 pred))))
-        ;; We presume (more or less) that `concat' and `unquote' commute.
-        (cl-assert (string-prefix-p uprefix ustring))
-        (list ustring table (length uprefix)
+      ;; PRED is really a POINT in STRING.
+      ;; We should return a new set (STRING TABLE POINT REQUOTE)
+      ;; where STRING is a new (unquoted) STRING to match against the new TABLE
+      ;; using a new POINT inside it, and REQUOTE is a requoting function which
+      ;; should reverse the unquoting, (i.e. it receives the completion result
+      ;; of using the new TABLE and should turn it into the corresponding
+      ;; quoted result).
+      (let* ((qpos pred)
+             (ustring (funcall unquote string))
+             (uprefix (funcall unquote (substring string 0 qpos)))
+             ;; FIXME: we really should pass `qpos' to `unuote' and have that
+             ;; function give us the corresponding `uqpos'.  But for now we
+             ;; presume (more or less) that `concat' and `unquote' commute.
+             (uqpos (if (string-prefix-p uprefix ustring)
+                        ;; Yay!!  They do seem to commute!
+                        (length uprefix)
+                      ;; They don't commute this time!  :-(
+                      ;; Maybe qpos is in some text that disappears in the
+                      ;; ustring (bug#17239).  Let's try a second chance guess.
+                      (let ((usuffix (funcall unquote (substring string qpos))))
+                        (if (string-suffix-p usuffix ustring)
+                            ;; Yay!!  They still "commute" in a sense!
+                            (- (length ustring) (length usuffix))
+                          ;; Still no luck!  Let's just choose *some* position
+                          ;; within ustring.
+                          (/ (+ (min (length uprefix) (length ustring))
+                                (max (- (length ustring) (length usuffix)) 0))
+                             2))))))
+        (list ustring table uqpos
               (lambda (unquoted-result op)
                 (pcase op
                   (1 ;;try
@@ -853,6 +877,7 @@ completing buffer and file names, respectively."
              (setq string (pop new))
              (setq table (pop new))
              (setq point (pop new))
+             (cl-assert (<= point (length string)))
              (pop new))))
         (result
          (completion--some (lambda (style)