Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org> writes:

> I can reliable reproduce this -- however, only with emacs21, not with
> emacs22.

I suspect this is because your emacs22 has been built after upgrading to
the latest -current. This had me confused: I was seeing the problem on
one system, but not on another, after upgrading both at the same time.
Then I realized I hadn't rebuilt Emacs on the former.  Doing so fixed it.

-tih
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