bug#9049: 24.0.50; rectangle copy to register followed by insert-register does not work at all

[Eric S Fraga]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':

I am trying to copy a rectangle of text.  I normally set a mark, move
the cursor, then copy-rectangle-to-register, move somewhere else and
finally insert-register.  When I try this with the version of emacs
24.0.50 I am using (Julien Danjou's Debian snapshot dated 20110628 but
this has been the case for quite a few iterations of 24.0.50...), I get 

    insert-register: Register does not contain text

Starting with emacs -Q, I can reproduce this by simply moving the cursor
up a couple of lines, set the mark, move the cursor to the right and
down a line or two, C-x r r a, move the cursor to the end, M->, and try
to insert the register, C-x r i a.

Thanks.

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For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
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In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-06-28 on keller, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20110628-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11002000
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/24.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/' 
'--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-imagemagick=yes' 
'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN 
-DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''

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_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-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-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-f C-f C-b C-b C-b 
C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b 
C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-x r r a C-n C-n C-n C-g C-x r 
i a <escape> x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <re
turn>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Mark set
call-interactively: End of buffer
byte-code: End of buffer
Quit
Mark set
insert-register: Register does not contain text

Load-path shadows:
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ledger hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ledger
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/debian-startup hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/md4 hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/md4
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/hex-util hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/hex-util
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/cedet-common/ezimage hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/ezimage
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/sasl hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/sasl-ntlm hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-ntlm
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/sasl-digest hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-digest
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/sasl-cram hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-cram
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/ntlm hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/ntlm
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/hmac-md5 hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/hmac-md5
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/hmac-def hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/hmac-def
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/cedet-common/mode-local hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/cedet/mode-local
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/cedet-common/inversion hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/cedet/inversion
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/cedet/cedet
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-files hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/cedet/cedet-files
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/timeclock hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/calendar/timeclock

Features:
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format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr
mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader emacsbug rect tooltip
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd
fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer
select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
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tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help
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text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
dbusbind dynamic-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit
x multi-tty emacs)

-- 
Eric S Fraga (: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/ :)