Re: emacs cvs loses the start of the buffer

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Here is a simple recipe:
> 
>     emacs -q --no-site-file
>     C-h t
>     C-v C-v M-v M-v
> 
>     The second M-v bogusly reports "beginning of buffer" rather
>     than scroll down.
> 
> This doesn't fail for me.

It definitely happens to me and for other users.
I just did cvs update + make bootstrap, and it still fails.

There are other reports on the same issue, and also a proposed fix
(start vs. BEGV).

In any case, the problem is _very real_ and _very annoying_.

This is:
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.43 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 
2003-01-01 on kfs2