Subject: bug#6846: Bug report

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:19:15 -0400

"Morris W. Hirsch" <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> Move the cursor to the Y at the start of the previous paragraph.
>>> Type C-<SPC>.  Emacs should display a message "Mark set"
>    at the bottom of the screen.
>>> Move the cursor to the n in "end", on the second line of the
>    paragraph.
>>> Type C-w.  This will kill the text starting from the Y,
>    and ending just before the n."
>
> I've done exactly that.  No text is killed. All that happens is a
> minibuffer appears containing the message.

Works for me.  What version of Emacs are you using?  Please provide all
the information that is generated by M-x report-emacs-bug.