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:

> 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