From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior editing a file from Dired
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 09:46:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8337hxily1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1cF5Pz-0001Ef-Jl@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:35:51 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:35:51 -0500
>
> When I review mails before sending them out, I move down through
> a Dired buffer typing C-o. Sometimes I switch to the other window
> and type C-x 1, edit that message file, and save it. Then I switch
> back to the Dired buffer.
>
> Occasionally I find that point has moved up some number of lines in
> the Dired buffer. The number of lines varies.
>
> This has been happening for months.
>
> When I notice it, I type C-h l, but I have not noticed anything
> significant in the output. And I have not been able to reproduce it.
>
> Has anyone else seen something like this?
I haven't, but I don't use Dired much with this paradigm.
I would suggest to define some appropriate hook (pos-command-hook, if
nothing better exists) that watches the value of point in that buffer,
and signals an error when it changes. Then you might be able to catch
the villain red-handed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-09 7:46 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 [this message]
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
2016-12-11 15:11 ` Simen Heggestøyl
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