Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> But it seems impossible to add an overlay *after* the cursor at the
>> end of the minibuffer, like `minibuffer-message' already does
>> inserting the message after the cursor at the end of the minibuffer.
>
> Try
>
>     (setq ov (make-overlay (point-max) (point-max)))
>     (overlay-put ov 'insert-in-front-hooks
>                  (list (lambda (o &rest ignore)
>                          (move-overlay o (point-max) (point-max)))))

Huh?  Why don't you do (make-overlay (point-max) (point-max) nil t t)
instead of using that hook?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum