Re: Bug in org-insert-link?

[Guillaume MULLER <guillaume.muller@emse.fr>]

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Hi,

Thanks for the answer... I'll have a look at your links.

However, since I wrote the email, I've seen the behavior occur without changing (at least voluntarily) the cursor position in the Org buffer...

On 10/5/23 12:18, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Guillaume MULLER <guillaume.muller@emse.fr> writes:
> 
>> ...
>> - Switch back to (Doom)Emacs ("window"/desktop)
>> - Click inside the Emacs "window" to give it focus
>> [Here is the problem: sometimes I forgot that I already started the org-insert-link]
>> - Call org-insert-link
>> - Paste the URL
>> - Validate the link creation
>>
>> Then the link is inserted where I clicked last (to give focus to the Emacs "window").
> 
> By default, Emacs moves point to where you click. You can do the same
> thing if you deliberately C-x o from the minibuffer. See 9.3 Editing in
> the Minibuffer section of Emacs manual.
> I see nothing wrong on the Org side.
> 
>> Of course, the problem lies in my mistake of calling twice the org-insert-link method, but the behavior is very strange, and it took me some time to identify why my links were inserted at random places in my text.
>>
>> However, wouldn't it be possible to prevent it from the beginning by forbidding me to call org-insert-link twice, i.e. making it a singleton/atomic function (I don't see a UseCase where this could be useful to be able to call it inside itself, but maybe I'm wrong)?
> 
> Check out 22.1 Mouse Commands for Editing section of Emacs manual.
> `x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position' might be something you want to
> customize.
> 

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