bug#5358: 23.1; Adding comment loses customizations in progress

[Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>]

Sorry, I don't understand this bug report. What do you mean by adding
comments?

David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> 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 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
> and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> Using the customization interface, I can make a change to a variable,
> then try to add a comment before saving.  When I do that, the changes
> I've already made are lost.
>
> 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
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/etc/DEBUG for instructions.
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54)
>  of 2009-08-16 on black.local
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038
> configured using `configure  '--with-ns''
>
> 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: nil
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: nil
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Custom
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   diff-auto-refine-mode: t
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   server-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-p C-p C-. C-. C-. C-b C-b <return> 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-e <backspace> 0 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-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-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 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-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n 
> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n 
> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-a C-p C-. C-. C-, <return> 
> 7 C-n C-n C-n C-e 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-e C-p C-e <backspace> 
> 0 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p 
> C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-x C-s 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-n C-n C-n C-n C-p <M-return> 
> <C-return> C-q C-j I SPC r e a l l y SPC d o n ' t 
> SPC w a n t SPC t o SPC s e t e <backspace> <backspace> 
> e SPC H T M L S-SPC u n l e s s SPC i <backspace> t 
> h a t ' s SPC a l l SPC t h e r e SPC i s . <backspace> 
> C-c C-c C-x C-s C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
> C-p C-p M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> b <tab> <return>
>
> Recent messages:
> Mark set [2 times]
> Saving file /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.el...
> Wrote /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.el
> Compiling /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.el...done
> Wrote /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.elc
> Saving file /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.el...
> Wrote /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.el
> Compiling /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.el...done
> Wrote /Users/dave/src/elisp.repo/elisp/custom.elc
> Making completion list...