From b988871df6636c1b7d5938d1ac2d2700a6a59158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Coste <frrrwww@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:14:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure selections are sorted and non overlapping in
 selections_list_from_string

---
 src/selection.cc | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/selection.cc b/src/selection.cc
index 36c1cdf2..47597a50 100644
--- a/src/selection.cc
+++ b/src/selection.cc
@@ -613,6 +613,10 @@ SelectionList selection_list_from_string(Buffer& buffer, StringView desc)
         clamp(sel, buffer);
         sels.push_back(sel);
     }
+    size_t main = 0;
+    std::sort(sels.begin(), sels.end(), compare_selections);
+    sels.erase(merge_overlapping(sels.begin(), sels.end(), main, overlaps), sels.end());
+
     return {buffer, std::move(sels)};
 }