From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>, help-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Double-click opens the wrong file
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:26:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <688645e4-144e-4247-953b-7c9476f56d32@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m260au66jr.fsf@tenpoint.co.nz>
> Occasionally, when I double click a file to edit it, Emacs will visit a
> different file instead.
>
> Repeated double clicking visits a succession of incorrect files, until
> Emacs eventually settles on the right one.
>
> The files are all ones I have been working with recently, although not
> necessarily in Emacs. The visited file need not be in the same location
> or even exist at all – Emacs will quite happily visit a recently deleted
> file.
>
> Only double clicking files associated with Emacs (26.0.90) seems to be
> affected. Visiting with find-file, drag and drop, and the menu-bar, as
> well as other versions of Emacs, have the expected behaviour.
>
> I would open a bug, but it feels like an OS problem (I'm on macOS
> 10.12.6), rather than a flaw in Emacs.
>
> Any ideas what's going on or how to fix/debug this issue?
One place to start is to use `C-h k' and then double-click
wherever you notice the problem. That should at least tell
you what Emacs command is being invoked by that double-click.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-01 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-01 3:07 Double-click opens the wrong file Nick Helm
2017-11-01 3:26 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-11-01 7:53 ` Nick Helm
2017-11-01 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-01 7:27 ` Nick Helm
2017-11-01 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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