2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 3d04960ffdc..2029538256b 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-03-10  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics@gmx.at>
+
+        * complete.el (PC-do-completion): Bind dirlength to nil to avoid
+        that buffer contents get erased during completion.
+
 2007-03-10  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * woman.el (woman-change-fonts): Add a hack to deal with
diff --git a/lisp/complete.el b/lisp/complete.el
index 104f3789403..ce5094d1aef 100644
--- a/lisp/complete.el
+++ b/lisp/complete.el
@@ -417,7 +417,10 @@ of `minibuffer-completion-table' and the minibuffer contents.")
          (pred minibuffer-completion-predicate)
          (filename (funcall PC-completion-as-file-name-predicate))
          (dirname nil)          ; non-nil only if a filename is being completed
-         (dirlength 0)
+         ;; The following used to be "(dirlength 0)" which caused the erasure of
+         ;; the entire buffer text before `point' when inserting a completion
+         ;; into a buffer.
+         dirlength
          (str (buffer-substring beg end))
          (incname (and filename (string-match "<\\([^\"<>]*\\)>?$" str)))
          (ambig nil)