* Problem

I wanted to script org mode table manipulations. The most basic table

command is org-table-cut-region (C-c C-x C-w)[fn:1].

I tried this with simplest possible table:

| x |

The cell content disappears but to my surprise the cursor jumped out

of the table! Trying with different tables, it came clear that the

cursor always jumped one line down and left of the table). (Under the

left border if you have a box cursor.) That should not happen!

Can anyone reproduce this?

* Clean run

Running bare emacs did not show this problem. The cursor stayed

between the cell borders.

#+BEGIN_SRC sh

/usr/local/bin/emacs -Q

#+END_SRC

* Cleaning emacs config

Assuming the culprit was some package in my emacs config, I bisected

my init file to almost nothing and still had the problem!

I am using Cask and pallet to keep track of the packages installed.

I removed all depends-on statements from my Cask file including the

one for pallet before I found the source of the problem.

The Cask file looks now like this:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

(source gnu)

(source melpa)

(source org)

(depends-on "cask")

#+END_EXAMPLE

The init.el file was down to:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

(package-initialize)

(require 'cask "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/cask/cask.el")

(cask-initialize)

#+END_EXAMPLE

If I remove the (cask-initialize) line, the cursor stays inside the

org table cell.

* Order matters

The final twist to this story is that if I start emacs, create an org

buffer with a table, and run org-table-cut-region key combination

first before evaling the init.el content, the cursor behaviour does

not change even after cask has been initialized!

What is going on here?

* Setup

I have recently compiled version 25.1 of emacs using homebrew

in my Mac. I regularly update emacs packages from melpa.

My current setup is:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

$ sw_vers

ProductName: Mac OS X

ProductVersion: 10.11.6

BuildVersion: 15G31

M-x emacs-version

GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0, NS appkit-1404.47 Version 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)) of 2016-09-18

M-x org-version

Org-mode version 8.3.6 (8.3.6-3-gf46b92-elpaplus @ /Users/lehvasho/src/emacs-literal-config/.cask/25.1/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20160919/)

$ cask --version

0.8.0

#+END_EXAMPLE

Incidentally, org-plus-contrib and plain org packages behave identically.

* Footnotes

[fn:1] The key binding actually calls org-cut-special that is a

context sensitive command. It calls org-table-cut-region only inside

table cells. (The org-cut-special document string has false

information claiming it calls org-table-copy.)