>From a shell prompt: emacs -q /tmp/tmp.c M-x auto-fill-mode /* *
(That's / * <return> * SPC). When typing the final space, the second line gets deleted. Pressing return instead messes it up differently. This seems to be a problem with c-mask-paragraph. After space: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- /* --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- After return: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- / ** --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-11-24 on pacem, modified by Debian (Debian emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20061123-1) X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 configured using `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.91/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.0.91/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.0.91/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2'' 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_NZ.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: C/l Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Recent input: M-x a u t o - f i l l - m o d e <return> / * <return> * SPC M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return> Recent messages: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/60hyperspec.el (source)...done Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/65bitmap-mule.el (source)...done Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/70x-face-el.el (source)...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. tmp.c has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file Loading cc-mode...done Loading tabify...done c-mask-paragraph: Beginning of buffer Making completion list... Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug