bug#7384: 23.2; Disabled command C-x C-l does nothing on first attempt; works on subsequent attempts

[Robin Green]

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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 selected the text MODULE_AUTHOR using the keyboard (you can see what I did in
the recent keypresses log below somewhere) and pressed C-x C-l. emacs told me
that the command was disabled and gave me four options, basically asking me if
I wanted to try the command or not. I typed 'y' to try the command and 'y' again
to persist this choice across sessions. Emacs printed "Wrote .emacs" but did not
do the actual action (converting the selected text to lowercase). When I tried
doing the same thing again, three times, it worked each time. So the enabling
of the command happened as expected, but the actual command doesn't seem to have
been executed the first time around!

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-05-22 on cspcnh.swan.ac.uk
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
'--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' 
'--docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-23.2' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--disable-dependency-tracking' 
'--disable-silent-rules' '--enable-fast-install' '--libdir=/usr/lib' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs' '--without-kerberos' '--without-kerberos5' 
'--without-hesiod' '--without-m17n-flt' '--without-xim' '--with-x' 
'--without-sound' '--with-xft' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 
'--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--without-libotf' '--with-rsvg' '--without-dbus' 
'--with-gif' '--without-gpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--without-tiff' 
'--with-xpm' '--without-gconf' 'build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
'host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' 'CFLAGS=-march=native 
-pipe -O2' 'CPP=cpp''

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.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Exheres

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  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-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
r SPC f o r SPC P e r l <down> <home> C-k C-k C-k C-k 
<end> <left> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> C-y <down> 
<left> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <help-echo> C-y 
<down> <down> <left> A r t i s t i c SPC G L P - 2 
<down> <up> <left> <left> <backspace> <backspace> P 
L <down> <down> <left> ~ x 8 6 SPC ~ ~ <backspace> 
a m d 6 4 <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <help-echo> 
<down> <left> <help-echo> <down> C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k 
C-k C-k C-k C-k <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <return> <return> <up> r e q u i r e SPC 
p e r - <backspace> k l <backspace> <backspace> l - 
m o d u l e C-x C-s C-x C-f <home> C-k / v a r / d 
b / p a l <tab> r e <tab> p e <tab> p a <tab> d <tab> 
p <tab> <tab> C o n <tab> f <tab> T i <tab> <tab> <return> 
C-x b <return> SPC [ SPC M O D U L E _ A U T H O R 
= " S H E R Z O D R " SPC ] <down> <down> <end> C-k 
C-k C-k C-k C-x C-s C-x b <return> C-x b <return> <down> 
C-k C-k C-x C-s C-x b <return> C-x b <return> <help-echo> 
C-x b <return> C-x b <return> <up> <up> <up> <end> 
<end> <C-left> <C-left> <C-left> <help-echo> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <help-echo> <C-S-right> <C-S-right> 
C-x C-l y y <C-S-left> <C-S-left> C-x C-l <help-echo> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <down> <return> <return> 
<up> F O O B A R <S-left> <S-left> <S-left> <S-left> 
<S-left> <S-left> C-x C-l <end> <return> F O O B A 
R <home> <S-end> C-x C-l M-x <help-echo> r e p o t 
<backspace> r t e <backspace> - e <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Saving file 
/home/greenrd/git/greenrd-exheres/packages/dev-perl/Config-Simple/Config-Simple-4.59.exheres-0...
Wrote 
/home/greenrd/git/greenrd-exheres/packages/dev-perl/Config-Simple/Config-Simple-4.59.exheres-0
Saving file 
/home/greenrd/git/greenrd-exheres/packages/dev-perl/Config-Simple/Config-Simple-4.59.exheres-0...
Wrote 
/home/greenrd/git/greenrd-exheres/packages/dev-perl/Config-Simple/Config-Simple-4.59.exheres-0
Mark set
Type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar): 
Enable command for future editing sessions also? (y or n) 
Saving file /home/greenrd/.emacs...
Wrote /home/greenrd/.emacs
Mark set [3 times]

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/coq hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ProofGeneral/coq/coq
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/coq-syntax hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ProofGeneral/coq/coq-syntax
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/coq-db hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ProofGeneral/coq/coq-db
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/pgg-gpg hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/pgg-gpg
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/hex-util hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/hex-util
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/pgg-parse hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/pgg-parse
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/pgg-pgp5 hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/pgg-pgp5
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/md4 hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/md4
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sha1 hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/sha1
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/pgg hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/pgg
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/pgg-def hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/pgg-def
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/pgg-pgp hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/pgg-pgp
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/hmac-def hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/net/hmac-def
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl-ntlm hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/net/sasl-ntlm
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/hmac-md5 hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/net/hmac-md5
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl-cram hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/net/sasl-cram
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/net/sasl
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/ntlm hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/net/ntlm
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl-digest hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/net/sasl-digest
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/wl/rfc2368 hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/mail/rfc2368
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/wl/utf7 hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/gnus/utf7
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/smime hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/gnus/smime

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multi-tty emacs)