From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Strange behavior editing a file from Dired
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:53:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f523b1f-71ab-4147-8d9d-7e7f1cb2b07d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1h1tpyq.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
> > Occasionally I find that point has moved up some number of lines in
> > the Dired buffer. The number of lines varies.
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-09 15:53 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 [this message]
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
2016-12-11 15:11 ` Simen Heggestøyl
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