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

[Juri Linkov]

>> 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)))))
>     (overlay-put ov 'after-string (concat (propertize " " 'cursor t)
>                                            "[No match]"))

Yes, this would work.  But it seems putting overlays at
(point-max) might have some negative consequences,
e.g. `(remove-overlays)' won't remove it because it can't
find this overlay in (overlays-in (point-min) (point-max)).
But (mapcar 'delete-overlay (overlays-in (point-min) (1+ (point-max))))
will do.

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