>>
>> Oh, I am still using
>>
>> GNU Emacs 22.3.5 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23) of 2015-11-14 on euclid
>
> Sorry, you'll have to upgrade to Emacs 25 when it comes out, to see
> this fixed. Emacs 24 and earlier are not supported anymore.

To be clear, the particular behaviour that prompted this bug report will
not be fixed/changed, I'm just documenting it (obviously there are a lot
of other changes and improvements between 22.3 and 25).