Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> writes:

> 2. open or type a tiny .c source file such as:
> =====================
> int main(void)
> {
>
> }
> =====================
>
> 3. mark 'main' and M-w
>
> 4. highlight 'main': M-s h r main, accept default face
>
> 5. yank on the empty line between {}. I expect the yanked text 'main' to
> be highlighted. Instead I sometimes see "mai" being highlighted but not
> the "n"; at other times I see nothing highlighted, but "mai" being
> rendered with a different face than the "n". In any case, it's never
> highlighted correctly.

I've tried the recipe in Emacs 28, and this seems to work better now: