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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior editing a file from Dired
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:32:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1cG0Ut-0000Uz-BB@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b68291dc-21c5-464d-a2bd-faae78d2750b@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:32:23 -0800 (PST))

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  > I think it comes from having different window points when the
  > same buffer is displayed in different windows.

I don't think so, because what I recall is that I didn't display one
buffer two windows.  ISTR that the log of recent keystrokes and commands
confirmed that.

  > Possibly it's a bug in Dired.  What I think I see (sometimes)
  > is that Dired seems to be checking the window point in some
  > other window than the window that is selected when I request
  > the action.

That sounds like a bug.  If you can determine any more, please post
it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-11  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-08 20:35 Strange behavior editing a file from Dired Richard Stallman
2016-12-09  7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-09 15:06   ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-09  9:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-09 15:06   ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-09 15:53   ` Drew Adams
2016-12-09 21:56     ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]   ` <<6f523b1f-71ab-4147-8d9d-7e7f1cb2b07d@default>
     [not found]     ` <<E1cFT9O-0001ky-7m@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-12-09 22:32       ` Drew Adams
2016-12-11  9:32         ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-12-11 15:11 ` Simen Heggestøyl

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