Thanks! I have this problem too; was going to report this.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:43 PM Gerald Wildgruber <
Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch> wrote:

>
> Matt, thanks! looking forward to any elucidation you can give on the
> problem at hand!
>
> Gerald.
>
> On Do, Aug 13 2015, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
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> > Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch> writes:
> >
> >> when doing a "C-c C-x f" in order to insert a footnote in an org mode
> >> document, the point is strangely positioned on the HEADING under which
> >> footnotes are stored and not, as one would expect, near the actual
> >> footnote marker [fn:X] where the text of the footnote goes. this is very
> >> annoying as there is absolutly nothing to do at the "Footnotes" heading,
> >> and one has to manoeuvre manually to the actual footnote every time over
> >> and over again.
> >
> > I can confirm this. The bug seems to lie in
> > org-footnote-goto-definition. I'll see if I can dig a little deeper.
> >
> > Matt
>
>