Package: emacs;
Reported by: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:09:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 23.2
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk> To: 6907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Cc: U.S.Reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk Subject: bug#6907: 23.2; beginning-of-buffer inconsistent mark behavior Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:09:21 +0100
The doc-string for `beginning-of-buffer' says that it leaves the mark at the previous position. But it is not doing so when the transient-mark-mode is active. `end-of-buffer' is also the same. I don't know what other commands have this problem. Cheers, Uday In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Info Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t which-function-mode: t savehist-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <wheel-up> <wheel-down> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <f1> C-x u C-p C-x v t r a n s i e n t - m a r k SPC SPC C-g M-x t a r <backspace> <backspace> r a n s i SPC SPC SPC <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-y C-x C-x C-x , C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-down> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <wheel-down> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> C-x C-s C-h i u u u u m e m SPC <return> C-s t r a n s i e n t C-a C-s m a r k C-r C-r C-r C-r C-a <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-down> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <wheel-down> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-a C-SPC C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-x , C-x C-x M-x t r t <backspace> a n s i e n t - m a r k SPC <return> C-g C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-x . C-x C-x C-g p p p p p p p SPC n SPC <backspace> p C-s a c t i v e C-s C-s C-s C-s C-a C-x m C-x k <return> M-x r e p o r t - e m SPC SPC b SPC <return> Recent messages: Mark set [2 times] Transient-Mark mode enabled Quit Mark set Quit Info-extract-pointer: Node has no Previous Mark saved where search started EmacsW32 Version 1.58 2010-08-02 `mail to _ on ""' is gone forever! Making completion list... 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