completions))
((eq action 'completion--unquote)
- (let ((ustring (funcall unquote string))
- (uprefix (funcall unquote (substring string 0 pred))))
- ;; We presume (more or less) that `concat' and `unquote' commute.
- (cl-assert (string-prefix-p uprefix ustring))
- (list ustring table (length uprefix)
+ ;; PRED is really a POINT in STRING.
+ ;; We should return a new set (STRING TABLE POINT REQUOTE)
+ ;; where STRING is a new (unquoted) STRING to match against the new TABLE
+ ;; using a new POINT inside it, and REQUOTE is a requoting function which
+ ;; should reverse the unquoting, (i.e. it receives the completion result
+ ;; of using the new TABLE and should turn it into the corresponding
+ ;; quoted result).
+ (let* ((qpos pred)
+ (ustring (funcall unquote string))
+ (uprefix (funcall unquote (substring string 0 qpos)))
+ ;; FIXME: we really should pass `qpos' to `unuote' and have that
+ ;; function give us the corresponding `uqpos'. But for now we
+ ;; presume (more or less) that `concat' and `unquote' commute.
+ (uqpos (if (string-prefix-p uprefix ustring)
+ ;; Yay!! They do seem to commute!
+ (length uprefix)
+ ;; They don't commute this time! :-(
+ ;; Maybe qpos is in some text that disappears in the
+ ;; ustring (bug#17239). Let's try a second chance guess.
+ (let ((usuffix (funcall unquote (substring string qpos))))
+ (if (string-suffix-p usuffix ustring)
+ ;; Yay!! They still "commute" in a sense!
+ (- (length ustring) (length usuffix))
+ ;; Still no luck! Let's just choose *some* position
+ ;; within ustring.
+ (/ (+ (min (length uprefix) (length ustring))
+ (max (- (length ustring) (length usuffix)) 0))
+ 2))))))
+ (list ustring table uqpos
(lambda (unquoted-result op)
(pcase op
(1 ;;try
(setq string (pop new))
(setq table (pop new))
(setq point (pop new))
+ (cl-assert (<= point (length string)))
(pop new))))
(result
(completion--some (lambda (style)