Subject: bug#9133: 24.0.50; C-x DEL loses on paragraph boundaries

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:43:08 -0400

Put this in the buffer:
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Test.

This is a test.  Does it work?
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Put point at the end.  Type M-a C-x DEL.
The text deleted should start with "this".
But instead it deletes the paragraph-separating line too.

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.2 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2011-07-20 on theobromine2
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-g -O0''

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: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  display-battery-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
. C-c C-c C-x 1 C-u C-v C-u C-v C-u C-v d x p C-u C-n 
C-u C-n C-u C-n C-n C-n C-@ C-u C-n C-n r ESC , RET 
W h a t SPC ESC x ESC p RET SPC f o r m a t SPC d o 
e s SPC i t SPC u s e ? SPC SPC W h a t SPC ESC DEL 
I s SPC i t SPC p o s s i b l e SPC t o SPC l i s t 
e n SPC w i t h SPC e n t ESC DEL o n l y SPC f r e 
e SPC s o f t w a r e ? ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC a ESC 
f ESC f ESC DEL ESC DEL C-k D o e s SPC i t SPC p r 
e s e n t SPC a n y SPC o b s t a c l e SPC t o SPC 
l i s t e n i n g SPC w i t h SPC o n l y SPC f r e 
e SPC s o f t w a r e ? ESC q RET C-c C-c C-d x C-x 
b f o f o RET T e s t . RET RET T h i s SPC i s SPC 
a SPC t e s t . SPC SPC D o e s SPC i t SPC w o r k 
? RET ESC a C-x DEL C-_ x r e C-h C-g C-_ ESC x r e 
m p r o DEL DEL DEL DEL p o r t SPC e m a v s DEL DEL 
c s SPC b u g RET

Recent messages:
Sending...done
Expunging deleted messages...done
Mark set [2 times]
Quit
Abbrev mode disabled
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-3
Sending...done
Expunging deleted messages...done
Undo! [2 times]

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow emacsbug newcomment help-mode view mailalias qp mule-util
cal-move cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs rmailmm message sendmail
format-spec mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev
gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 rmail rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils dired t-mouse time-date
battery paren cus-start cus-load mailcrypt rfc822 comint regexp-opt
ring easymenu mailcrypt-init tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe
lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev
minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties
overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar
gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

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