bug#81645: 32.0.50; Annotations break *Completions* navigation in vertical format
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:15:54 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii [17/Aug 5:26pm +03] wrote: > >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, Sean Whitton <[email protected]> > >> From: Stephen Berman <[email protected]> > >> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:06:06 +0200 > >> > >> 0. emacs -Q > >> 1. (setopt completions-format 'vertical) > >> 2. Sanity check: Typing `M-x auto- TAB' pops up the *Completions* buffer > >> and you can navigate up and down through each column by typing > >> `M-<DOWN>' and `M-<UP>' with wrapping from the last to the first > >> candidate and vice versa. > >> 3. Now type `M-x abbrev- TAB', then repeatedly type `M-<DOWN>': after > >> the last candidate point wraps to the second instead of the first > >> candidate. > >> 4. Now type `M-x dabbrev- TAB'. Now typing `M-<DOWN>' once moves to > >> last candidate, but repeating `M-<DOWN>' does not move point (in > >> particular, no wrapping). Now typing `M-<UP>' moves point back to > >> the first candidate, but typing `M-<UP>' again move point not to the > >> beginning of the last candidate but to the middle of the annotation > >> "(M-/)" affixed to the candidate. > >> > >> The problems in 3 and 4 are due to the annotations in the *Completions* > >> buffer. The attached patch fixes these problems, so that navigation in > >> 3 and 4 work as in 2 according to my testing. I think this patch should > >> be applied to the release branch because the type of navigation in > >> vertical format illustrated by 2 was introduced in Emacs 31 by commit > >> 77ca60b48d01, which, however, failed to take annotations into account. > > > > I think this is fine to install on the emacs-31 release branch, > > because the code it changes is specific to the 'vertical' > > completions-format, which is new in Emacs 31. > > > > Sean? > > Okay with me too. Thanks. Stephen, please install on the release branch when you have time.