bug#6907: 23.2; beginning-of-buffer inconsistent mark behavior

[Uday S Reddy]

The doc-string for `beginning-of-buffer' says that it leaves the mark at
the previous position.  But it is not doing so when the
transient-mark-mode is active.  

`end-of-buffer' is also the same.  I don't know what other commands have
this problem.

Cheers,
Uday






In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'

Important settings:
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  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
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  which-function-mode: t
  savehist-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
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<wheel-up> <wheel-down> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> 
<double-wheel-up> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
<f1> C-x u C-p C-x v t r a n s i e n t - m a r k SPC 
SPC C-g M-x t a r <backspace> <backspace> r a n s i 
SPC SPC SPC <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-y C-x C-x C-x , C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x 
C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x C-x <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-up> 
<wheel-up> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <wheel-down> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> 
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> C-x C-s C-h i u 
u u u m e m SPC <return> C-s t r a n s i e n t C-a 
C-s m a r k C-r C-r C-r C-r C-a <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-down> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <wheel-down> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-a C-SPC 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 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 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-x , C-x C-x M-x t r t <backspace> a n s i 
e n t - m a r k SPC <return> C-g C-SPC 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 C-p C-x . C-x 
C-x C-g p p p p p p p SPC n SPC <backspace> p C-s a 
c t i v e C-s C-s C-s C-s C-a C-x m C-x k <return> 
M-x r e p o r t - e m SPC SPC b SPC <return>

Recent messages:
Mark set [2 times]
Transient-Mark mode enabled
Quit
Mark set
Quit
Info-extract-pointer: Node has no Previous
Mark saved where search started
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