Hi, Here are the steps to reproduce: 1. Create an empty buffer in any major mode, like fundamental 2. Type a character, like `a' 3. Select the entire buffer using `C-x h' and then press 4. You will see " Beginning of buffer" in the echo area, and nothing will be deleted. In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0, NS appkit-1894.60 Version 10.15.7 (Build 19H2)) of 2020-10-14 built on C02Y80D7JHD4 Repository revision: 4bf9bb56b56b4acacd5d9430a19db32291bd078b Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1894 System Description: Mac OS X 10.15.7 Configured using: 'configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus@28/28.0.50/share/info/emacs --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus@28/28.0.50 --with-xml2 --with-gnutls --with-dbus --with-imagemagick --with-modules --with-rsvg --without-pop --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained' Configured features: JPEG TIFF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK DBUS GLIB NOTIFY KQUEUE ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES THREADS JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: C value of $LC_CTYPE: UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: global-voice-lock-mode: t voice-lock-mode: t tooltip-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 Load-path shadows: /Users/pdoustdar/src/emacspeak/lisp/tetris hides /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus@28/28.0.50/share/emacs/28.0.50/lisp/play/tetris Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug emacspeak-message message rmc puny emacspeak-dired locate dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec emacspeak-epa epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util emacspeak-rmail rmailsort emacspeak-desktop desktop frameset rmail rmail-loaddefs auth-source eieio eieio-core eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map 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 emacspeak-widget wid-edit emacspeak-tab-bar emacspeak-buff-menu emacspeak-advice emacspeak-cedet cl-macs emacspeak-setup mac-voices emacspeak emacspeak-preamble emacspeak-sounds emacspeak-speak emacspeak-keymap sox-gen emacspeak-pronounce voice-setup cl-extra help-mode easymenu seq dectalk-voices acss-structure emacspeak-load-path byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-seq subr-x cus-load dtk-speak dtk-unicode advice dtk-interp cl-loaddefs cl-lib gv tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win 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 button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind kqueue cocoa ns lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 122800 11810) (symbols 48 9949 1) (strings 32 28427 3038) (string-bytes 1 920771) (vectors 16 20743) (vector-slots 8 234751 11153) (floats 8 76 18) (intervals 56 245 0) (buffers 992 13))