bug#12290: 23.1; Daemon mode clobbers key assignments in .emacs

[Chong Yidong]

"Paul Ste. Marie" <pstemari@google.com> writes:

> My .emacs file contains the line:
>
>   (global-set-key [M-backspace] 'backward-kill-word)
>
> If I launch emacs from the command line, this has the normal behavior.
>
> However, if I launch emacs in daemon mode, e.g. via
>
>   emacsclient -c -a ''
>
> this definition gets clobbered and [M-backspace] is redefined as kill-word.
>
> Some poking around in the bug base turns up:
>
>   http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=1960
>   http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4709

Thanks for the bug report, but as the bug database entries indicate, the
bug was fixed some time ago.  I just checked, and could not reproduce
the problem on Emacs 23.4 or 24.x.