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

[martin rudalics]

>>>`(remove-overlays)' won't remove it because it can't find this overlay
>>>in (overlays-in (point-min) (point-max)).
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>>That seems like a problem in itself.
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> Indeed.  If (1+ (point-max)) works, then a solution is to let
> `remove-overlays' default to (1+ (point-max)) rather than just
> (point-max).

I suppose this would make

(progn
  (make-overlay 5 6)
  (narrow-to-region 2 5)
  (remove-overlays)
  (widen))

fail.  The correct approach is to call `remove-overlays' twice as

(remove-overlays)
(remove-overlays (point-max) (point-max))