From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange behavior editing a file from Dired Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:32:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: < <87d1h1tpyq.fsf@linux-m68k.org>> <<6f523b1f-71ab-4147-8d9d-7e7f1cb2b07d@default>> <> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481448811 7077 195.159.176.226 (11 Dec 2016 09:33:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 09:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 11 10:33:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cG0VZ-0001Ci-P6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:33:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54939 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG0Vd-0005Jz-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:33:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG0V1-0005Je-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG0V0-00078Z-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG0Uu-00075I-1n; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:32:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cG0Ut-0000Uz-BB; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:32:43 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:32:23 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210261 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think it comes from having different window points when the > same buffer is displayed in different windows. I don't think so, because what I recall is that I didn't display one buffer two windows. ISTR that the log of recent keystrokes and commands confirmed that. > Possibly it's a bug in Dired. What I think I see (sometimes) > is that Dired seems to be checking the window point in some > other window than the window that is selected when I request > the action. That sounds like a bug. If you can determine any more, please post it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.