bug#114: Shell-mode: File completion breaks editing previous commands

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But that's also the case before my patch, right?  So it's not
>> a consequence of my patch.

> OK then, pretend I said:

> I'm also not sure what consequences simply removing this field property
> will have.

> However, I noticed that your patch leaves the help-echo and mouse-face
> properties missing on the completed text, which is a little unaesthetic.
> An alternative solution that avoids this issue would be if callers of
> completion could optionally request that it insert-and-inherit the
> completed text rather than just insert it. I could imagine that other
> callers of completion might need such a feature. But I have no idea if
> this is feasible.

I think there are two issues:
1- handling the `insert' case as well as possible, because a lot of code
   uses just `insert' (tho in practice very few cases seem to show up:
   yank, completion, any other?).
2- changing (some) users of `insert' such as completion to use
   insert-and-inherit.

(2) might be good, indeed, tho I'm not completely sure what are the 
consequences.


        Stefan