Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: 0. Extract the enclosed files to /tmp 1. Evaluate: (custom-set-variables '(ediff-skip-merge-regions-that-differ-from-default t) ) (ediff "/tmp/x" "/tmp/y") 2. Hit the spacebar Result: "You have killed a vital Ediff buffer---you must leave Ediff now!" This happens even with "emacs -q" If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file /usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4) of 2008-12-12 on mcbain Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000 configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/usr/local'' 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: Custom Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t show-paren-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t delete-selection-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 global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: 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 R x 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 R y M-x e d i f f x y SPC q y y y M-x e d i f f - b u f u C-g C-g C-x b e d i M-< 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-x C-f e d i . C-s b u f g C-s C-s C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-. C-. C-. C-. C-. C-. C-. C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-x C-k C-x C-k C-x C-p M-> M-< C-x C-k M-x c u s t o m - a p e d i f f 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-s m e r g e SPC p r e M-< C-s p r e f i x C-n C-p C-n C-a C-. C-b C-s s k i p C-e C-, C-, C-, C-, C-n C-, C-, C-a C-, C-a C-n C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f 0 M-x M-p M-p x y SPC SPC SPC p p p q y y y C-p C-e C-, C-, C-, M-x r e p o r t - e m a b u Recent messages: Computing differences between x and y ... Buffer A: Processing difference region 0 of 2 Buffer B: Processing difference region 0 of 2 Processing difference regions ... done Region 1 in buffer A is empty [2 times] Region 2 in buffer A is empty [4 times] Region 1 in buffer A is empty [2 times] Quit this Ediff session? (y or n) Kill buffer A [x]? (y or n) Kill buffer B [y]? (y or n)