bug#15979: 24.3.50; Bad display in *vc-log* buffer

[Richard Stallman]

I type C-x v v to commit a change in a CVS-managed file,
and type RET in the *vc-log* buffer.  The blank line displays
highlighted like the mode line above it.



In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.16 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2013-11-22 on chiefs-gnewsense
Bzr revision: 115176 eliz@gnu.org-20131121192242-jqvypz42rz31z87q
System Description:     gNewSense GNU/Linux 3.0 (parkes)

Configured using:
 `configure 'CFLAGS=-g -O0''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: HTML

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  gpm-mouse-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
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC d ESC d ESC d ESC d ESC q ESC f ESC f ESC f DEL 
a l i t y ESC q C-x C-s C-f SPC SPC U s e r s SPC f 
SPC DEL DEL o f SPC p r o p r ESC / SPC s o f t w a 
r e SPC a r e SPC d e f e n s e l e s s . ESC a C-x 
C-s ESC 2 ESC r ESC q C-s C-x C-x C-s C-f C-g C-x C-s 
C-x v v E x p l a i n SPC a b o u t SPC m a l w a r 
e ESC b ESC DEL C-e SPC a n d SPC h o w SPC t h e s 
e SPC e x a m p l e s C-a C-o C l a r i f y SPC t h 
e SPC b a s i c SPC p o i n t SPC u s i n g SPC t h 
e SPC t e r m ESC d C-f " ESC f " C-k . C-a C-o C-d 
C-c C-c ESC x b u g SPC ESC DEL r e p o r t SPC e m 
a v s SPC b u g DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL C-g C-x 4 b f o 
o RET RET f o f o C-p C-d C-o C-x o C-x v v a a C-x 
C-s C-x v v RET C-g C-x 0 C-x v u y e s RET C-x 4 m 
C-x 0 ESC x b DEL r e p o r t SPC e m a s SPC DEL DEL 
c DEL a c s SPC b u g RET

Recent messages:
Quit
Fileset is up-to-date
Saving file /home/rms/www/philosophy/proprietary.html...
Wrote /home/rms/www/philosophy/proprietary.html
Mark set
Press C-c C-c when you are done editing.
Enter a change comment.  Type C-c C-c when done
Quit
Finding changes in /home/rms/www/philosophy/proprietary.html...
Reverting /home/rms/www/philosophy/proprietary.html...done

Load-path shadows:
/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/net/shr-color hides 
/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/gnus/shr-color
/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/net/shr hides 
/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/gnus/shr
/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/net/rcompile hides 
/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/obsolete/rcompile

Features:
(shadow emacsbug log-edit pcvs-util add-log diff-mode easy-mmode vc
vc-dispatcher quail unrmail cal-move cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs
help-mode mule-util epa derived epg epg-config parse-time vc-cvs
sgml-mode rmailout shell pcomplete grep compile comint ansi-color ring
qp rmailsum dabbrev misearch multi-isearch mailalias rmailmm message
sendmail format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 dired
t-mouse package rmailedit rmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date paren cus-start cus-load advice
help-fns tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win
x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list
newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan
thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button
faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting
system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
multi-tty emacs)
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        [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
        [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.


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