bug#9158: 24.0.50; Regression in e-mail heade completion

[Ivan Kanis]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> I get the message "completion for "foo" unfound" which is fine. The bug
>> is that the cursor moves forward several spaces.  Apparently
>> indent-relative gets called when it shouldn't.
>> I expected the cursor to remain at the end of the entry that did not
>> match.  It worked fine on 23.3.
>
> The way the new code works can't handle this correctly because the BBDB
> code doesn't indicate that something happened: it just always returns nil
> whether something was done or not.
> The new BBDB-3 has fixed this, AFAIK, so you may want to try that out.

Hi Stefan,

I have just installed bbdb 3. It doesn't fix it. I'll reopen the bug
because it's a regression.

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