Re: window-point oddity

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>]

Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:

> Something odd has happened to my current running emacs:
>
> Whenever I split a window with C-x 2, I cannot move point in the new
> window. Or more precisely, whenever I select the new window then the
> cursor jumps to the same position it has in the original window. If I
> move it away, by any method whatever (arrow key, mouseclick, elisp
> executed from the minibuffer), it jumps back to its original position.
> There is always a delay before the point jumps. The delay is of
> variable length, but never more than a second.
>
> Unfortunately, I am unable to reproduce this if I start up a different
> emacs instance. Hence my question: Could I accidentally have activated
> some feature that has this (rather annoying) side effect, or is it
> more likely that I have come across an obscure bug? (It goes without
> saying that if I figure out how to reproduce it, I will report a bug.)

I saw something like that happen not too long ago during a badly messed
up M-x gdb session.  Killing the *gud* buffer fixed the problem.  If you
weren't running gdb, of course, this would be moot.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)