TextEditor: Jump over braces inserted by the TextDocumentManipulatorv4.4.0-beta1

Task-number: QTCREATORBUG-16946
Change-Id: I445c5698da59230f1d6ae859e6bbf20d26fc5bb9
Reviewed-by: Nikolai Kosjar <nikolai.kosjar@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Eike Ziller <eike.ziller@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: André Hartmann <aha_1980@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp b/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp
index 7e8c1c2345..ba1dd248bd 100644
--- a/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp
@@ -7431,7 +7431,10 @@ void TextEditorWidget::keepAutoCompletionHighlight(bool keepHighlight)
 void TextEditorWidget::setAutoCompleteSkipPosition(const QTextCursor &cursor)
 {
     QTextCursor tc = cursor;
-    tc.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCharacter, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor);
+    // Create a selection of the next character but keep the current position, otherwise
+    // the cursor would be removed from the list of automatically inserted text positions
+    tc.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCharacter);
+    tc.movePosition(QTextCursor::PreviousCharacter, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor);
     d->autocompleterHighlight(tc);
 }