Paul Collins paul@briny.ondioline.org writes:

When point is just after the slime prompt and the user does M-x hyperspec-lookup, the prompt is inserted into the minibuffer as a suggestion. Text properties are retained, and so the user cannot delete the suggestion or even select the previous history entry.

Here is a patch that corrects this problem by stripping all of the text properties from the suggestion. A big hammer, perhaps, but I don't like seeing randomly-coloured text in the minibuffer anyway.

My original patch was broken: substring-no-properties does not like to be called with a null argument.

Index: hyperspec.el =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/hyperspec.el,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -u -r1.10 hyperspec.el --- hyperspec.el 28 Oct 2006 08:44:41 -0000 1.10 +++ hyperspec.el 7 Dec 2006 06:07:40 -0000 @@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ (interactive (list (let* ((symbol-at-point (thing-at-point 'symbol)) (stripped-symbol (and symbol-at-point - (downcase - (common-lisp-hyperspec-strip-cl-package - symbol-at-point))))) + (substring-no-properties + (downcase + (common-lisp-hyperspec-strip-cl-package + symbol-at-point)))))) (if (and stripped-symbol (intern-soft stripped-symbol common-lisp-hyperspec-symbols))