bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I don't remember why we're doing that, but I seem to vaguely recall that
>> there's a reason...  Anybody?
>
> I'm pretty sure there's a reason, and I'm pretty sure this reason is
> "sloppiness".  I blame the author of commit 1d00653d9e (and the author
> of commit 14486c44 might be considered as an accessory to the crime).

Is there no way to let the text properties survive completion?  Because
that's also come up more than a few times.

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