From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73485 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: M-g sometimes moves point one line up Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:48:56 +0200 Message-ID: <8739rx5gmf.fsf@escher.home> References: <87hbgewhth.fsf@escher.home> <87d3r2w6tc.fsf@escher.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287831000 32556 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2010 10:50:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:50:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21854@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 23 12:49:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P9bfj-0000pW-05 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:49:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P9bf0-0000pU-GS; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P9bex-0000pC-F5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:49:11 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P9bet-00055j-3B for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:49:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P9bes-00014Y-00 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:49:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P9bes-0000bk-9z for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:49:06 +0200 Original-Received: from i59f573c4.versanet.de ([89.245.115.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:49:06 +0200 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f573c4.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:49:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f573c4.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73485 Archived-At: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:06:23 +0200 Stephen Berman wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:56:19 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > >> Stephen Berman writes: >> >>> In the Group buffer I have often observed this: when point is on the >>> first group in a topic and in column 0, then after I type `M-g' and the >>> number of new articles in the group is updated, point moves up one line, I just observed it when point was not on the first group in a topic, though it was in column 0. And the movement was not like doing (forward-line -1) but (backward-char), i.e., it ended up at the end of the previous line. I still don't have a reproducible recipe, but I think it has only happened the first time I type `M-g' on a group in the current Gnus session (or perhaps in the current Emacs session). Steve Berman >>> to the name of the topic. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen every time >>> and I haven't found a reproducible recipe. But maybe someone else has >>> seen this or has an idea, what the problem could be. >> >> I'm not able to reproduce this. I've had a look at the code, and I >> can't really see why this would happen, unless you have a strange group >> format (without a ":" in the string) or have an unset >> `gnus-goto-next-group-when-activating'. > > My .gnus.el does indeed have: > > (setq gnus-group-line-format " %S%(%G%* (%y+%i)%)\n") > (setq gnus-goto-next-group-when-activating nil) > > But this follows the rules, doesn't it? ("[I]f you don't want to have a > colon in your line, [...] use the `%*' specifier.") > > Steve Berman