The attached patch fixes the bug described below. In the current version (the current Gnu emacs repository master) of allout-widgets-mode, exiting the mode fails to undecorate the first item if it's at the start of the buffer. You can confirm this by creating a simple outline like the following (indented to distinguish it, the bullets need to be at the left margin in the actual text): * First item .* Second item Then activate allout-mode and allout-widgets-mode, and then deactivate allout-widgets-mode. The widget decorations will not be properly removed from the first item. The attached patch rectifies this bug so all decorations are properly removed. In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30, cairo version 1.15.10) of 2020-07-04 built on gram Repository revision: 5d1bac0ac951e25d0b0b39a9919f13053162d5df Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'HC-Consult', version 11.0.12005001 System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Recent messages: Allout-Widgets mode disabled in current buffer M-o C-x o is undefined Quit Mark set [2 times] Quit Allout mode enabled in current buffer Allout-Widgets mode enabled in current buffer M-x is undefined M-p is undefined Allout-Widgets mode disabled in current buffer Configured using: 'configure --with-gnutls=ifavailable --with-x-toolkit=yes --with-xpm=ifavailable --with-jpeg=ifavailable --with-gif=ifavailable --with-tiff=ifavailable' Configured features: PNG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY FREETYPE HARFBUZZ ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS PDUMPER Important settings: value of $LANG: C.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: allout-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-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-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils allout-widgets pcase wid-edit allout ffap thingatpt url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv url-vars vc-git diff-mode easymenu easy-mmode cl-loaddefs cl-lib bug-reference tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 74548 7639) (symbols 48 8879 1) (strings 32 23418 2064) (string-bytes 1 775322) (vectors 16 13294) (vector-slots 8 168908 9258) (floats 8 33 150) (intervals 56 369 0) (buffers 992 15))