From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Strange behavior editing a file from Dired Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:53:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6f523b1f-71ab-4147-8d9d-7e7f1cb2b07d@default> References: <87d1h1tpyq.fsf@linux-m68k.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481298845 24388 195.159.176.226 (9 Dec 2016 15:54:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 09 16:53:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cFNUd-0004eL-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:53:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47411 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFNUh-0004b8-NH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:53:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFNUZ-0004TF-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFNUU-0003q1-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:53:47 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:37737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFNUU-0003pw-4c; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id uB9Frcu5022000 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:53:38 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uB9Fra0i004698 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:53:37 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0010.oracle.com (abhmp0010.oracle.com [141.146.116.16]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id uB9FrYlG027736; Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:53:35 GMT In-Reply-To: <87d1h1tpyq.fsf@linux-m68k.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210188 Archived-At: > > Occasionally I find that point has moved up some number of lines in > > the Dired buffer. The number of lines varies. >=20 > Are you using multiple frames? This can happen if the buffer is also > displayed in another frame with a different window point. My thought exactly. It's a gotcha that I still fall into, even though I've been using many frames for a long time. You put the cursor back where it was, and after trying to do something that depends on where it was, you see that it was moved somewhere else.