Selected autocomplete items should be used without colour tags. Fixes #472

inputfield.go

@@ -573,6 +573,7 @@ func (i *InputField) InputHandler() func(event *tcell.EventKey, setFocus func(p
 				}
 				i.autocompleteList.SetCurrentItem(newEntry)
 				currentText, _ = i.autocompleteList.GetItemText(newEntry) // Don't trigger changed function twice.
+				currentText = stripTags(currentText)
 				i.SetText(currentText)
 			} else {
 				finish(key)
@@ -585,6 +586,7 @@ func (i *InputField) InputHandler() func(event *tcell.EventKey, setFocus func(p
 				}
 				i.autocompleteList.SetCurrentItem(newEntry)
 				currentText, _ = i.autocompleteList.GetItemText(newEntry) // Don't trigger changed function twice.
+				currentText = stripTags(currentText)
 				i.SetText(currentText)
 			} else {
 				finish(key)

textview.go

@@ -269,13 +269,13 @@ func (t *TextView) SetText(text string) *TextView {
 	return t
 }
 
-// GetText returns the current text of this text view. If "stripTags" is set
+// GetText returns the current text of this text view. If "stripAllTags" is set
 // to true, any region/color tags are stripped from the text.
-func (t *TextView) GetText(stripTags bool) string {
+func (t *TextView) GetText(stripAllTags bool) string {
 	// Get the buffer.
 	buffer := make([]string, len(t.buffer), len(t.buffer)+1)
 	copy(buffer, t.buffer)
-	if !stripTags {
+	if !stripAllTags {
 		buffer = append(buffer, string(t.recentBytes))
 	}
 
@@ -283,19 +283,14 @@ func (t *TextView) GetText(stripTags bool) string {
 	text := strings.Join(buffer, "\n")
 
 	// Strip from tags if required.
-	if stripTags {
+	if stripAllTags {
 		if t.regions {
 			text = regionPattern.ReplaceAllString(text, "")
 		}
 		if t.dynamicColors {
-			text = colorPattern.ReplaceAllStringFunc(text, func(match string) string {
+			text = stripTags(text)
-				if len(match) > 2 {
-					return ""
-				}
-				return match
-			})
 		}
-		if t.regions || t.dynamicColors {
+		if t.regions && !t.dynamicColors {
 			text = escapePattern.ReplaceAllString(text, `[$1$2]`)
 		}
 	}

util.go

@@ -628,3 +628,15 @@ func iterateStringReverse(text string, callback func(main rune, comb []rune, tex
 
 	return false
 }
+
+// stripTags strips colour tags from the given string. (Region tags are not
+// stripped.)
+func stripTags(text string) string {
+	stripped := colorPattern.ReplaceAllStringFunc(text, func(match string) string {
+		if len(match) > 2 {
+			return ""
+		}
+		return match
+	})
+	return escapePattern.ReplaceAllString(stripped, `[$1$2]`)
+}