@Matt Correct. I have set org-footnote-auto-adjust to t.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
> > Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch> writes:
> >
> >> Matt, thanks! looking forward to any elucidation you can give on the
> >> problem at hand!
> >
> > Could you tell me what the value of org-footnote-auto-adjust is on your
> > machine?
> >
> > It seems on my end that the problem only occurs when
> > org-footnote-auto-adjust is set to t. The problem seems to be line 556
> > of org-footnote.el, which reorders the footnotes *after* the position of
> > the footnote definition has been saved. When I remove that line or set
> > org-footnote-auto-adjust to nil, the cursor is positioned correctly.
>
> This patch should fix the issue. Testing is welcome.
>
> Matt
>
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