bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

Today I typed DEL after yanking some text and typing C-x C-x to go to
the beginning of it.  DEL surprised me by deleting the region.
This change causes a lot of trouble.



In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2010-10-10 on theobromine2
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-g''

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: RMAIL

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  display-battery-mode: t
  tooltip-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
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC ESC DEL l a v a r SPC l o s SPC f i d e o s SPC 
c o n SPC a g u a SPC f r i a . C-c C-c C-u C-n C-u 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n ESC x m i m e RET C-u C-v C-u C-v 
ESC v C-v C-u 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-n C-n C-e C-b C-@ ESC 
b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC w m C-y C-n P o r SPC q u e 
' DEL DEL C-\ e ' SPC d i m i t e s ? ESC b ESC b ESC 
b ? / C-n C-n C-n C-x o C-v C-u C-n C-u C-n C-n C-n 
C-p C-p C-p C-e ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC b 
ESC b ESC b C-@ C-n C-n C-x o ESC , RET M e SPC i n 
q u i e t o SPC DEL DEL a DEL o SPC d e SPC t u SPC 
s a l i d a . SPC SPC C-a C-o C o n SPC t u SPC s a 
l i d a , SPC ESC l ESC q C-e ESC DEL ESC DEL ESC DEL 
p o r SPC E c u a d o r . RET ? / P o r SPC q u e ' 
SPC s a l i s t e ? C-c C-c . o f s f - l a TAB RET 
d d d d d ESC x e m a c s ESC DEL r e p o r t SPC e 
m a c s SPC b u g RET

Recent messages:
Auto-saving...
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-3
Sending...done
Mark set [4 times]
Auto-saving...done
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-4
Sending...done
Added to /home/rms/xmail/fsf-la.xmail

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(rmailkwd warnings rmailsum goto-addr thingatpt noutline outline
apropos two-column kmacro iso-transl etags debug pp vc-bzr sha1
hex-util find-func help-fns compare-w ispell shadow emacsbug dired-aux
diff-mode easy-mmode vc vc-dispatcher parse-time vc-cvs sgml-mode
mule-util cal-move cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs grep compile
ansi-color shell tabify man assoc mh-e mh-compat mailabbrev mh-acros
cl mh-buffers mh-loaddefs gnus gnus-ems nnheader gnus-util mm-util
mail-prsvr wid-edit novice quail help-mode view rmailout dabbrev
newcomment mailalias sendmail multi-isearch dired t-mouse finder-inf
package rmailedit rmail mail-utils battery paren cus-start cus-load
mailcrypt rfc822 comint regexp-opt ring easymenu mailcrypt-init
tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd
tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar
rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax
facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese
tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak
czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces
cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env
code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)


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Richard Stallman
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